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The Orphan Breed · Allt

EXERCISE 8 OF 53
Join Part C to Break (bars 19-21)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK
COUNT-IN
PART C
BREAK
PART S4
PART S6
CHORUS
PART J
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesYJS6AES4+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Orphan Breed on drums

145 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-37, toms through bars 38-39, silence through bars 40-62, snare through bars 63-93 and toms through bars 94-96, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27, 29-30 and 37, and 2 more places -- 5.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29               30
    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--xxx---x-xxxx|
The Orphan Breed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K (a two-bar phrase), X -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-26 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S4 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 2 and Part S6 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part S6 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Orphan Breed?

175 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 The Orphan Breed hard to play on drums?

47 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 The Orphan Breed?

9 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED