Say It · Blue October

98 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 14 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SAY IT · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 37, 53, 61 and 8 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 3 sections: 81 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say It?

116 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 Say It hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Say It?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 37, 53, 61 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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