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I Will Not Bow · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 9 OF 62
Groove R -- Outro
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART R
PART T
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEALRTI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will Not Bow on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
65/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-50, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 17-19 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---------|
I Will Not Bow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 20 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 3-29 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-17 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-35 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Will Not Bow?

108 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 I Will Not Bow hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

97 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 I Will Not Bow?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 16, 20 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED