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Save Me · Shinedown

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-81, snare through bars 82-83, hi-hat through bars 84-85 and ride through bars 86-102.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
HH |--o---o-------o-|
SD |----x--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

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- H, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-34 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-62 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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