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Save Us · Mushroomhead

EXERCISE 7 OF 20
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCS2HS9A+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Save Us on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-44, silence through bars 45-47, hi-hat through bars 48-68, silence through bars 69-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 25, and 26 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |--x---xx--x-----|
Save Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 23, 31, 47, 52, 53 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-48 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 47-115 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Save Us?

125 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 Us hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Us?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 23, 31, 47, 52, 53 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED