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The Savior · Electric Callboy

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove K -- Part K
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PART E
PART G
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S13
PART S18
PART K
OUTRO 2
15 groovesMKGES13+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Savior on drums

127 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, snare through bars 22-25, silence through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-45, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Savior -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 33, 41, 53, 61, 77 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-21 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-34 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-112 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-95 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Savior?

160 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 The Savior hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Savior?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 33, 41, 53, 61, 77 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED