Topless · Breaking Benjamin

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15, 19-20 and 33, and 2 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 87 BPM
TOPLESS · BARS 19-20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, 16 and 27 more.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 2-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 9 sections: 23 keep time, 33 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-9.

PART G
PART J
PART L
PART T
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXTAHLG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Topless?

87 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 Topless hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 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 Topless?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 10, 14, 16 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED
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