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The Saw Is The Law · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 14 OF 57
Groove J -- Part J
63 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART S8
PART AC
PART AF
PART J
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBHAKJAC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Saw Is The Law on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:21
DIFFICULTY
81/100

snare through bars 2-9, silence through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-42 and toms through bars 43-47, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 15 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------g-g---x---------------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-x---x---x-x-x---|
The Saw Is The Law -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 23 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Saw Is The Law?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Saw Is The Law hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Saw Is The Law?

13 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 19, 23, 25, 26, 27 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED