Caustic Breeze · Fractality

184 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 30 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
CAUSTIC BREEZE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 35, 36, 40, 44, 52 and 20 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 13 sections: 132 keep time, 26 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 136-150.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART V
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHVNKA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caustic Breeze?

135 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 Caustic Breeze hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Caustic Breeze?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 20, 35, 36, 40, 44, 52 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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