Dance With The Devil · Breaking Benjamin

91 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 3:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 19, and 12 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 78 BPM
DANCE WITH THE DEVIL · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 18, 29, 30, 32, 34 and 21 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 29-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 14 sections: 43 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-17.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART V
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDMITV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dance With The Devil?

78 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dance With The Devil hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dance With The Devil?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 18, 29, 30, 32, 34 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED
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