Save Me · Queen

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 2:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-11, and 7 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SAVE ME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 45, 49 and 1 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 39 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

COUNT-IN
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBCMLS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save Me?

82 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?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 45, 49 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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