Safe And Sound · Shinedown

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-28 and 47-53, and 2 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 96 BPM
SAFE AND SOUND · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 15 and 22 more.

LOOP · 96 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 96 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 13 sections: 32 keep time, 28 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-54.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNGDS1S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Safe And Sound?

96 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 Safe And Sound hard to play on drums?

49 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Safe And Sound?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 3, 4, 6, 8, 11, 15 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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