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Safe And Sound · Shinedown

EXERCISE 3 OF 45
Groove G -- Part G
28 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Safe And Sound on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-29, toms through bars 30-31 and snare through bars 32-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x-----|
Safe And Sound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- N, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 3-9 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-26 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-58 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 3 and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-76 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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