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Firefly · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 21 OF 34
Groove N -- Part N
59 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART A
PART I
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDSIAN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Firefly on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, silence through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-35, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 17-19 and 21-23, and 5 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x---x-----x---|
Firefly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 16, 35, 48, 49, 67 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D, S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-35 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Firefly?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Firefly hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Firefly?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 16, 35, 48, 49, 67 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED