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Savage · Cacophony

Savage · Cacophony
EXERCISE 6 OF 94
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
90 / 212 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H
PART C
PART H
PART R
PART X
CHORUS
PART R
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART AX
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAAXRAXH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Savage on drums

212 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 7:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
7:25
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-17, hi-hat through bars 18-41, ride through bars 42-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-89, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-72 and 106-112, and 3 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x--x----|
Savage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AA, X -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part X -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part X -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Savage?

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 Savage hard to play on drums?

59 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 7:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Savage?

23 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED