Unknown Soldier · Breaking Benjamin

108 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-9 and 33-34, and 10 more places -- 18.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 124 BPM
UNKNOWN SOLDIER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 31, 47, 51 and 10 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 14 sections: 67 keep time, 16 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-18.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART B
OUTRO
10 groovesIBDEL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Unknown Soldier?

124 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 Unknown Soldier hard to play on drums?

64 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 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 Unknown Soldier?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 31, 47, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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