Save Me · Shinedown

102 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 15 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 115 BPM
SAVE ME · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 53, 61, 73 and 13 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-49.

PART B
PART E
PART J
PART E
CHORUS
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHJEBU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save Me?

115 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?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 53, 61, 73 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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