Polyamorous · Breaking Benjamin

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 33-39 and 59-65, and 1 more place -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
POLYAMOROUS · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 22, 32, 40, 52, 56 and 3 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 53 keep time, 9 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-31.

PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFDJKB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Polyamorous?

100 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 Polyamorous hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Polyamorous?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 22, 32, 40, 52, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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