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Say That You Will · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 17 OF 26
Groove M
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0 / 26 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
BREAK 4
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
10 groovesBCS1AK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say That You Will on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
28/100

silence through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-35, silence through bars 36-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-60, toms through bars 61-92 and silence through bars 93-125, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-92 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Say That You Will -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 108, 112, 116, 124, 128, 132 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 44-125 -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Say That You Will?

133 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 That You Will hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 That You Will?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 108, 112, 116, 124, 128, 132 and 5 more.

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