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Save Me · Damageplan

EXERCISE 15 OF 26
Groove J
84 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO
4 groovesCBKNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save Me on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-51, snare through bars 52-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 25-31 and 52-58, and 1 more place -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Save Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 51, 66 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-84 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part B and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Save Me?

110 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 Me hard to play on drums?

57 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Save Me?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 51, 66 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED