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Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson) · Paul McCartney

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson) on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 2-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 30-37 and 46-52, and 2 more places -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-x-o-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |------x-------x-|
Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-60 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Say Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson)?

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 Say Say (feat. Michael Jackson) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED