Savages · That Handsome Devil

155 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 15 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SAVAGES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 25, 32, 33, 34, 59 and 5 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 12 sections: 125 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-24.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART Q
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIQFRFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Savages?

150 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 Savages hard to play on drums?

60 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Savages?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 25, 32, 33, 34, 59 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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