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Broken Wings · Guilt Trip

EXERCISE 18 OF 69
Groove D -- Part D
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PART A
PART D
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
PART H
PART S
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesNS9HACA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Broken Wings on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-25, toms through bars 26-30, snare through bars 31-50, hi-hat through bars 51-67 and snare through bars 68-75, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 51-53, and 1 more place -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Broken Wings -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 11-18 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Broken Wings?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Broken Wings hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Broken Wings?

16 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED