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Saw · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 3 OF 65
Groove L -- Part L (a two-bar phrase)
35 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saw on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
84/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-14, ride through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-23, snare through bars 24-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-46, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    24
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Saw -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- J, AI -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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