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Water · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 12 OF 32
Groove D
60 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Water on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-27 and snare through bars 28-39, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx---xxx-x---x-|
Water -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 17-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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