save me · Danielle Nicole

135 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-20 and 26-28, and 3 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SAVE ME · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 21, 22, 35, 37, 38, 41 and 28 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 37-38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 16 sections: 76 keep time, 34 are fills, 6 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-20.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBFAPXAO+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is save me?

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 save me 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 21, 22, 35, 37, 38, 41 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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