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Caustic Breeze · Fractality

EXERCISE 9 OF 59
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-17)
96 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Caustic Breeze on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-34, toms through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-67, toms through bars 68-69 and ride through bars 70-101, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Caustic Breeze -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-36 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-86 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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