Sugarcoat · Breaking Benjamin

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3-7 and 23, and 5 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 97 BPM
SUGARCOAT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 44, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 5 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 97 BPM
BARS 60-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 11 sections: 57 keep time, 11 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
6 groovesACIDQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sugarcoat?

97 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Sugarcoat hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Sugarcoat?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 22, 44, 60, 61, 62, 63 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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