Savin' Me · Nickelback

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-21, 39-41 and 58-67 -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 82 BPM
SAVIN' ME · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 46 and 68.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 68
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 11 sections: 35 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-67.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
PART S7
PART F
PART K
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesBFS10KS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Savin' Me?

82 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 Savin' Me hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Savin' Me?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 42, 46 and 68.

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