Say You Will · Foreigner

123 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 19, and 39 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
SAY YOU WILL · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 64, 72, 78 and 2 more.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 8 sections: 101 keep time, 8 are fills and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-107.

PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEFJDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Say You Will?

127 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 You Will hard to play on drums?

44 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Say You Will?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 64, 72, 78 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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