Nervous Breakdown · Black Flag

92 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Punk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-18, 20-21 and 27-39, and 10 more places -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 185 BPM
NERVOUS BREAKDOWN · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

92 bars across 7 sections: 46 keep time, 1 is a fill, 35 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-58.

PART B
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHBFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nervous Breakdown?

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

Is Nervous Breakdown hard to play on drums?

59 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Nervous Breakdown?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 8.

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