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Say It by Blue October · НШБ 41

EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Groove D -- Part D
54 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say It by Blue October on drums

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

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-53, ride through bars 54-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Say It by Blue October -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- F, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-57 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-70 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED