Wish I May · Breaking Benjamin

105 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 123 BPM
WISH I MAY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 17 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 13 sections: 63 keep time, 23 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-23.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHDNS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wish I May?

123 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 Wish I May hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Wish I May?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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