Say It - Blue October · Jokker

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

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24 and 38-52 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SAY IT - BLUE OCTOBER · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 37, 53 and 8 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 10 sections: 72 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say It - Blue October?

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 - Blue October 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 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 - Blue October?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 37, 53 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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