Red Cold River · Breaking Benjamin

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
RED COLD RIVER · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 18, 26, 48, 59, 63 and 2 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-37.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFKSS1C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Red Cold River?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Red Cold River hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Red Cold River?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 14, 18, 26, 48, 59, 63 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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