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Mistakes Like Fractures · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 18 OF 64
Join Part C to Part H (bars 10-12)
40 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H
PART C
PART H
PART S5
PART Q
CHORUS
PART AA
BREAK 2
16 groovesUHAACS5+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mistakes Like Fractures on drums

107 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-28, silence through bars 29-30 and snare through bars 31-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-57, 60-61 and 64-66, and 2 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Mistakes Like Fractures -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- U -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K (a two-bar phrase), Q -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 12-41 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mistakes Like Fractures?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mistakes Like Fractures hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Mistakes Like Fractures?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED