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Save Me · Queen

EXERCISE 20 OF 29
Run L1 · Part L (bars 39-43)
49 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save Me on drums

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.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-37, ride through bars 38-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59 and kick and crashes through bars 60-61.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |----o-x---x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Save Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

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, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-29 -- 9 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-50 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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