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Dance With The Devil · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 15 OF 53
Groove K
44 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dance With The Devil on drums

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.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
82/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-32, snare through bars 33-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x---x-------x-----|
Dance With The Devil -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 18, 29, 30, 32, 34 and 21 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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