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Say My Name · NOVELISTS

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART C
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBJCS9X+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say My Name on drums

164 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, silence through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-33, silence through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-53, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 38 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---x-x---|
Say My Name -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 37, 57, 61, 65, 69 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-56 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-89 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-143 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Say My Name?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

54 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 37, 57, 61, 65, 69 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED