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Save Tonight · Eagle-Eye Cherry

Save Tonight · Eagle-Eye Cherry
EXERCISE 9 OF 13
Fill at bar 72
112 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save Tonight on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23, 25-47 and 49-55, and 6 more places -- 82.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 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 10 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Save Tonight?

120 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Save Tonight?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED