let me break. · Bitter Ends

145 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-54, 89-102 and 105-111, and 1 more place -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LET ME BREAK. · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 103 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 103-104 · LANDS ON BAR 105 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 11 sections: 76 keep time, 9 are fills, 4 are stops and 43 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-55.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART S4
PART B
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBS1S10M+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is let me break.?

150 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 let me break. hard to play on drums?

44 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 let me break.?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 103 and 3 more.

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