ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guide Me To Another Breath on drums

205 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 135 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 205
LENGTH: 5:53
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

toms through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-38, toms through bars 39-54, hi-hat through bars 55-74 and toms through bars 75-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 77-81, 83-87 and 89, and 13 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    77                                               78
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----o-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----x--x--|
BD |x-----x--x--------x--x--x-----x--x--------x--x--|x-----x--x--------x--x--x-----x--x--------------|

Guide Me To Another Breath -- 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 3.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 3-42 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 39-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Guide Me To Another Breath?

135 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 Guide Me To Another Breath hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 5:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Guide Me To Another Breath?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 3.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED