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Wish I May · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 5 OF 43
Groove D -- Part D
35 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wish I May on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-------x-|
Wish I May -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-29 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-61 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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