Shallow Bay · Breaking Benjamin

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 37-43 and 55-61, and 1 more place -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 98 BPM
SHALLOW BAY · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 26 and 54.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-69.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesJCRGN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shallow Bay?

98 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 Shallow Bay hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Shallow Bay?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 26 and 54.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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