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Medicate · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 30 OF 33
Run A2 · Outro (bars 77-86)
106 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Medicate on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-28, toms through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-58 and toms through bars 59-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
HH |--------------o-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Medicate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-69 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 69-87 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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