Save the World · We Are Not Friends

56 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 1:40 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
56
LENGTH
1:40
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25-32 and 49-56 -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SAVE THE WORLD · BAR 9
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

56 bars across 5 sections: 42 keep time and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-32.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Save the World?

134 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 the World hard to play on drums?

40 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

56 bars, about 1:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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