Dark · Breaking Benjamin

61 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:07 of playing, on ride, snare, floor tom and kick.

Rock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
18/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 46-52 and 54, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 115 BPM
DARK · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 4 sections: 38 keep time and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-37.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDS1JHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dark?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dark hard to play on drums?

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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