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Saosin · Voices
EXERCISE 4 OF 49
Groove F -- Part F
77 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
INTRO
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBHCTP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saosin on drums

156 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 3-7, hi-hat through bars 8-34, snare through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-74, snare through bars 75-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-84, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 36 and 38, and 18 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Saosin -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 74, 82, 97, 99 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Intro and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-64 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-51 -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Saosin?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Saosin 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Saosin?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 74, 82, 97, 99 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED