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For My Sake v2 · Shinedown

EXERCISE 8 OF 44
Groove D -- Part D
44 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play For My Sake v2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, snare through bars 41-42 and ride through bars 43-45, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
For My Sake v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 20-29 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-49 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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