The Way It Breaks · Loathe

117 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 31, and 9 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 113 BPM
THE WAY IT BREAKS · BAR 71
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 37, 45, 68, 69, 93, 97 and 7 more.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 101 · LANDS ON BAR 102

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 13 are fills, 10 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-21.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S7
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFDHS7S+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Way It Breaks?

113 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 The Way It Breaks hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Way It Breaks?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 37, 45, 68, 69, 93, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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