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save me · Danielle Nicole

save me · Danielle Nicole
EXERCISE 21 OF 73
Join Part M to Part F (bars 44-46)
80 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART F
CHORUS
PART M
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play save me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-39, ride through bars 40-41, hi-hat through bars 42-56, ride through bars 57-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-51 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-69 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 64-83 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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