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Blow Me Away · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove E -- Part E
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blow Me Away on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-7, snare through bars 8-9, toms through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19 and toms through bars 20-21, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-xxx-x-xxxxx-x-|
BD |x-----x-xx------|
Blow Me Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-18 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-24 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-47 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-60 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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