So You Say · No Pressure

53 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 1:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
1:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-17 and 34-40, and 2 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SO YOU SAY · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 52 and 53.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 52-53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 5 sections: 41 keep time, 6 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is So You Say?

128 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 You Say hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 1:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in So You Say?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 41, 52 and 53.

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