Uploaded August 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Big thanks to R4 for his stellar drumming on this song. Subscribe to his channel today to hear perfectly played drum parts to some of your favorite rock songs. I've learned so much about drumming from him!

R4's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCk4MeUnTGswwdNzm2OyVdXA

So, what's 'The Breaks' all about? And it's just an instrumental song. There are no lyrics, so it couldn't really be about anything, could it?

I think that vocals and lyrics are important, but much of the character of a song is established by drums, rhythms, instrument sounds, and melodies. For guitar instrumentals, the guitar is like a vocal. Most of my work reflects a sincere effort to try to capture intentionality, feeling, and experiences without using words. I'm convinced that music can show us what words cannot. Now I am trying to convince myself that I can make music to do just that.

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Here's my idea for The Breaks:

At some point in your life you have noticed a moment when everything seems to be exactly as it should. There is a sense of perfect order and fit, and your life seems to be in amazing harmony with the universe.

At other points in your life, you have felt an almost comical separation between your plans and what the universe gives you. These chaotic times, when all that you have envisioned for yourself is turned on its head, bite with brutality, marking the clearest division between your sense of belonging in the world and the world itself, with its own seeming intentions.

Isn't it cruel how we can feel so aligned at one point and entirely out of touch later? And we really have no way of knowing when we are moving in the right direction. The universe announces this only after when have moved.

That is what The Breaks is about. It is about peace and chaos. It's about being the commander of your own life, but also being the vessel moved around on the ocean. It is serenity, and it is storm. It is beautiful, and it is terrible.
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Here's my work on Spotify
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Here is a YouTube playlist with some of my more popular tracks
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