Save A Prayer · Duran Duran

153 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 68-122 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 113 BPM
SAVE A PRAYER · BAR 68
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 50 and 58.

LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 113 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 7 sections: 142 keep time, 3 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-122.

PART B
PART D
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIJEBD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save A Prayer?

113 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 Save A Prayer hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Save A Prayer?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 10, 50 and 58.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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