Say My Name · Divide Music

157 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-17, 45-59 and 94-108, and 1 more place -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SAY MY NAME · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 23, 27, 72, 76, 84 and 4 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 18 sections: 95 keep time, 10 are fills, 21 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-60.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART V
OUTRO
11 groovesDHPVS1+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say My Name?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Say My Name hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 My Name?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 18, 23, 27, 72, 76, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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