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They Say · Scars On Broadway

EXERCISE 4 OF 16
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 23-25)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play They Say on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-56 and 65-72, and 1 more place -- 63.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
They Say -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-36 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 33-89 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is They Say?

138 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 They Say hard to play on drums?

46 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?

96 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in They Say?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED