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let me break. · Bitter Ends

let me break. · Bitter Ends
EXERCISE 6 OF 28
5-bar fill at bar 32
80 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play let me break. on drums

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

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-55, toms through bars 56-57, silence through bars 58-64, snare through bars 65-118 and silence through bars 119-128, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41               42
    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---|--x---x---x-xxxx|
let me break. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- J, B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 37-74 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-73 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 79-114 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 111-145 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED