Blow Me Away · Breaking Benjamin

82 bars, 4:48, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16 and 35-40 -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BLOW ME AWAY · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 24 more.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 14 sections: 31 keep time, 30 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-16.

COUNT-IN
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART W
OUTRO
9 groovesLEGWS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blow Me Away?

68 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Blow Me Away hard to play on drums?

50 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Blow Me Away?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 17, 19, 20, 21, 23, 25 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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