Saw · Orbit Culture

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-31, 50-57 and 62-69 -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SAW · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 34 and 34 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 19-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 44-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 12 sections: 76 keep time, 42 are fills, 10 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART S7
PART Y
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJAILDAA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saw?

105 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Saw hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Saw?

11 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 34 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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