Failure · Breaking Benjamin

137 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 33-35 and 41-43, and 10 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
FAILURE · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 46, 48, 53 and 29 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 35 are fills, 23 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
5 groovesFDQS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Failure?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Failure hard to play on drums?

48 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Failure?

11 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 46, 48, 53 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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