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Something Wicked · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 16 OF 60
Groove M
56 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART E, PART AE
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Something Wicked on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Something Wicked -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E, N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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