Say It by Blue October · НШБ 41

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
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 54-60 and 75-81, and 2 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SAY IT BY BLUE OCTOBER · BAR 27
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 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 6 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 11 sections: 71 keep time, 14 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFDIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say It by 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 by Blue October hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 31 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 by Blue October?

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

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