For My Sake v2 · Shinedown

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 19 and 37-39, and 5 more places -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 83 BPM
FOR MY SAKE V2 · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 15 more.

LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 83 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 11 sections: 40 keep time, 21 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-59.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADHRFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For My Sake v2?

83 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 For My Sake v2 hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 For My Sake v2?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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