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finger breaking good · Oganes

EXERCISE 3 OF 51
Groove AC -- Part AC (a two-bar phrase)
19 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AC, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART AC
PART AE
PART F
PART AP
OUTRO
11 groovesAACAEWF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play finger breaking good on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41, snare through bars 42-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-85 and snare through bars 86-97, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5 and 30-40 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
finger breaking good -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 45, 93 and 105.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 8-15 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-46 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is finger breaking good?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 finger breaking good hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 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 finger breaking good?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 41, 45, 93 and 105.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED