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Every Breaking Wave · U2

EXERCISE 13 OF 15
Run E1 · Outro (bars 85-91)
92 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCBES8+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Every Breaking Wave on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
30/100

snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26, ride through bars 27-43, silence through bars 44-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63 and ride through bars 64-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42, 64-79 and 92-111 -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-92 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Every Breaking Wave?

117 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 Every Breaking Wave hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Every Breaking Wave?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 91.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED