Pretty When You Break · Ekoh, Catch Your Breath

120 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 43, and 15 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
PRETTY WHEN YOU BREAK · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 57, 58, 85, 89 and 113.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 57-58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 113 · LANDS ON BAR 114
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 15 sections: 78 keep time, 6 are fills, 12 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-77.

CHORUS
PART E
PART S6
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesDEBS6S1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pretty When You Break?

160 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 Pretty When You Break hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Pretty When You Break?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 44, 57, 58, 85, 89 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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