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Save A Prayer · Duran Duran

EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Fill at bar 10 and 58 (a small one)
112 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save A Prayer on drums

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

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-153.

The beat

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.

    68
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Save A Prayer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I, J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-126 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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