Un-Break My Heart · Toni Braxton

123 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 56 BPM, 4:25 of playing on ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

Funk / SoulPopUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
56 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-122 -- 98.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 56 BPM
UN-BREAK MY HEART · BAR 3
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars: 123 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-123.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Un-Break My Heart?

56 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Un-Break My Heart hard to play on drums?

25 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 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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