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Say You Will · Foreigner

EXERCISE 21 OF 26
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 87-89)
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Say You Will on drums

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

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-6 and hi-hat through bars 7-123.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Say You Will -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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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.

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