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The Way It Breaks · Loathe

EXERCISE 38 OF 39
Run F4 · Outro 2 (bars 110-117)
100 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Way It Breaks on drums

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.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, ride through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and ride through bars 34-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-------------|
The Way It Breaks -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, H, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-70 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 76-106 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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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