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So Much To Say · Dave Matthews Band

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Outro
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BREAK 2
OUTRO
4 groovesCS2AS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Much To Say on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-21, snare through bars 22-52, hi-hat through bars 53-54, toms through bars 55-62 and snare through bars 63-74, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-37, 39-52 and 63, and 10 more places -- 62.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
So Much To Say -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 62, 68, 72, 76, 80, 96 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So Much To Say?

115 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 So Much To Say hard to play on drums?

40 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 So Much To Say?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 62, 68, 72, 76, 80, 96 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED