Give Me A Sign · Breaking Benjamin

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 79 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 79 BPM
GIVE ME A SIGN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 20, 21, 22 and 19 more.

LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 79 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 79 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 25 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-64.

CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART P
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDAGQP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Give Me A Sign?

79 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 Give Me A Sign hard to play on drums?

60 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Give Me A Sign?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 2, 4, 12, 20, 21, 22 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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