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How To Save A Life · The Fray

How To Save A Life · The Fray
EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Groove F
101 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBES1S6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How To Save A Life on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-93, silence through bars 94-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-133.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 33-39 and 41-47, and 6 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
How To Save A Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 48, 76, 92, 108 and 132.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part S3 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 48-93 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How To Save A Life?

122 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 How To Save A Life hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 How To Save A Life?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 48, 76, 92, 108 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED