Say I · Creed

99 bars, 5:17, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6 and 31, and 8 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SAY I · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 7, 20, 21, 29, 33 and 11 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 17 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-19.

PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART R
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFAJS9C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say I?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Say I hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 5:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Say I?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 7, 20, 21, 29, 33 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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