Something Wicked · Breaking Benjamin

139 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 5 more places -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
SOMETHING WICKED · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 64, 68, 76 and 12 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 13 sections: 61 keep time, 18 are fills, 39 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-63.

PART B
PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesNAEEKB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Something Wicked?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Something Wicked hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

139 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Something Wicked?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 28, 36, 44, 64, 68, 76 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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