Water · Breaking Benjamin

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 11 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 85 BPM
WATER · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 31, 34, 35 and 15 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-16.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Water?

85 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 Water hard to play on drums?

55 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?

83 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Water?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 31, 34, 35 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
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