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Save Tonight · Eagle-Eye Cherry

Save Tonight · Eagle-Eye Cherry
EXERCISE 15 OF 19
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 80-82)
109 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save Tonight on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
41/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-64, kick and crashes through bars 65-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-112.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-47 and 49, and 5 more places -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------------|
Save Tonight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 72, 80, 88 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B, D -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-73 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Save Tonight?

116 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 Tonight hard to play on drums?

41 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 3 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tonight?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 24, 48, 56, 72, 80, 88 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED