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Death Breath · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 16 OF 78
Run F1 · Chorus (bars 1-42)
110 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFANXOAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Death Breath on drums

211 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-16, toms through bars 17-18, snare through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-26 and snare through bars 27-32, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 19-20 and 23-24, and 28 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x-x-----x-|
Death Breath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-50 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 68-203 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Death Breath?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Death Breath hard to play on drums?

57 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 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 Death Breath?

23 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED