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Unknown Soldier · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove B -- Part B
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PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIBDEL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unknown Soldier on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-23, ride through bars 24-32, snare through bars 33-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-51, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-32 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-24 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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