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I Am Broken Too · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 28-30)
58 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Broken Too on drums

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.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-59, toms through bars 60-75 and snare through bars 76-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
I Am Broken Too -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-63 -- 10 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-64 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part Q and Part E -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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