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Savior · Rise Against

EXERCISE 20 OF 38
Groove N -- Part N
69 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART S10
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCS1FSS10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Savior on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-30 and snare through bars 31-41, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 23-26, and 9 more places -- 41.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x-x--xx--|
Savior -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 27, 28, 29 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-23 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-78 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Savior?

92 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 Savior hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Savior?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 27, 28, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED