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Dark · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove J -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDS1JHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dark on drums

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

18 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:07
DIFFICULTY
18/100

silence through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-22, snare through bars 23-37, ride through bars 38-45 and snare through bars 46-61.

The beat

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.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------------r-|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Dark -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- J, D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-45 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED