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Found Before the Break of Dawn · Plague Of the Saints

EXERCISE 15 OF 72
Fill at bar 38, 40, 94 and 96 (a small one)
68 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Found Before the Break of Dawn on drums

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.

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
162
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Found Before the Break of Dawn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- H, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-40 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-30 -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-61 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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