I Am Broken Too · Killswitch Engage

96 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23, and 10 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
I AM BROKEN TOO · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 36, 37 and 18 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 24 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-72.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART Q
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEQYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am Broken Too?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 I Am Broken Too hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 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 I Am Broken Too?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 36, 37 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED
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