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Dear Agony · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 35 OF 52
Groove V
114 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART Z, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Agony on drums

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.

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-42, snare through bars 43-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
Dear Agony -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- L, M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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