Found Before the Break of Dawn · Plague Of the Saints

162 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 34 and 90, and 2 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
FOUND BEFORE THE BREAK OF DAWN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 36 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 25 sections: 86 keep time, 42 are fills, 14 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 111-119.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART AF
20 groovesNDHAFAI+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Found Before the Break of Dawn?

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 Found Before the Break of Dawn 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Found Before the Break of Dawn?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 16, 23, 24 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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