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Say What You Will · Fastway

EXERCISE 7 OF 18
Groove F -- Part F
80 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART F
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAGFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say What You Will on drums

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

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-103 and kick and crashes through bars 104-107.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x-----x--|
Say What You Will -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 45-66 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED