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Topless · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 13 OF 49
Run G1 · Part G (bars 5-10)
31 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Topless on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-27, hi-hat through bars 28-34, ride through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x---x-x-|
HH |----------------|----------o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--x-xx-x--x-|xx-x--x-x--x-xx-|
Topless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-11 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-15 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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