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Shallow Bay · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 16 OF 34
Groove L
70 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shallow Bay on drums

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

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26 and snare through bars 27-28, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17                               18
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-----x-------x---|x-----x-----x---x-x-------x-----|
Shallow Bay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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 -- J, R -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-44 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 25-47 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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