Dear Agony · Breaking Benjamin

129 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 28 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DEAR AGONY · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 14 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 12 sections: 64 keep time, 20 are fills, 32 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-17.

CHORUS
PART O
PART B
PART O
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBMOZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dear Agony?

125 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 Dear Agony hard to play on drums?

47 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dear Agony?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 18, 26, 34 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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