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One Last Breath · Creed

EXERCISE 7 OF 31
Groove E
51 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART I
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJILS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Last Breath on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-29, ride through bars 30-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47, toms through bars 48-49 and ride through bars 50-66, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 34, and 13 more places -- 20.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
HH |--------------o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
One Last Breath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 29, 37, 48, 49, 53 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is One Last Breath?

124 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 One Last Breath hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 One Last Breath?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 29, 37, 48, 49, 53 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED