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Say I · Creed

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Part A
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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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say I on drums

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.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
5:17
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-65, toms through bars 66-69, hi-hat through bars 70-86, silence through bars 87-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-99.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-36 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 65-86 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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