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Give Me A Sign · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove A -- Part A
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PART A
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Me A Sign on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
79 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-46 and snare through bars 47-48, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-29 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-42 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-49 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-61 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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