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Last Breath · Attack Attack!

EXERCISE 23 OF 37
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 53-55)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
PART A
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART L
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesHNFDS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Breath on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 68-83 and 105-110 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    68               69
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x---------|x-xx-xx-x-xxxxxx|
Last Breath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-50 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-84 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Breath?

125 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 Last Breath hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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.

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