Save Room · John Legend

110 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-26, 29-35 and 45-52, and 11 more places -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 112 BPM
SAVE ROOM · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 37, 55, 65, 73, 91 and 1 more.

LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 112 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 5 sections: 94 keep time, 7 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-90.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save Room?

112 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 Room hard to play on drums?

43 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Room?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 37, 55, 65, 73, 91 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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