Saying Sorry · Hawthorne Heights

125 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 10 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 168 BPM
SAYING SORRY · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 36, 40, 46, 64, 68, 73 and 6 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 16 sections: 76 keep time, 12 are fills, 17 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-27.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesAFHOQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saying Sorry?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Saying Sorry hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Saying Sorry?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 36, 40, 46, 64, 68, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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