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Failure · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 5 OF 44
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
58 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART Q, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFDQS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Failure on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-32, snare through bars 33-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-----xx|
BD |x-------------x-|--x-x-----------|
Failure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-89 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-87 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-133 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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