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Polyamorous · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove F -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Polyamorous on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
72/100

snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-32, snare through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-57, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x--x---xx--x-x-x|x--x---xx--x-x--|
Polyamorous -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-42 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-50 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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