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save me · Skillet

EXERCISE 13 OF 36
Groove O
53 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART C
PART E
PART J
CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMCJEQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play save me on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-68, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 47-49, and 3 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21               22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---xx|--x-----x-xx-xxx|
save me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 28, 54, 56, 57 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 21-42 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-61 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-69 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is save me?

96 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?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 28, 54, 56, 57 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED