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You · Breaking Benjamin

EXERCISE 25 OF 49
Join Chorus 2 to Part D (bars 46-48)
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFIQCD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, ride through bars 29-34, hi-hat through bars 35-66, ride through bars 67-78 and toms through bars 79-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 35, and 7 more places -- 24.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 30, 32, 42 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- F, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-60 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-89 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You?

118 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 You hard to play on drums?

50 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?

95 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 You?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 30, 32, 42 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED