Medicate · Breaking Benjamin

110 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 61-67 and 73-76, and 1 more place -- 34.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
MEDICATE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 29, 30, 38 and 11 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 9 sections: 79 keep time, 17 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-106.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesIEAMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Medicate?

125 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 Medicate hard to play on drums?

53 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?

110 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Medicate?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 8, 28, 29, 30, 38 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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