I Saw You Saying · Raimundos

95 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom and mid tom.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
16/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 55-63 and 67-74, and 2 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I SAW YOU SAYING · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 28, 46, 54, 75 and 94.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 8 sections: 59 keep time, 6 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-88.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
4 groovesAFS5S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Saw You Saying?

120 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 I Saw You Saying hard to play on drums?

16 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

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

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in I Saw You Saying?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 28, 46, 54, 75 and 94.

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