Say What You Will · Fastway

107 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 66% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-39 and 41-47, and 3 more places -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SAY WHAT YOU WILL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 104, 105 and 106.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 104-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 7 sections: 92 keep time, 4 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-47.

PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAGFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say What You Will?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 What You Will hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Say What You Will?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 104, 105 and 106.

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