House Of Broken Love · Great White

114 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 7 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 77 BPM
HOUSE OF BROKEN LOVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 30, 42 and 19 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 12 sections: 75 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-12.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART A
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesEACLU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is House Of Broken Love?

77 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 House Of Broken Love hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 House Of Broken Love?

19 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 30, 42 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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