Albatross · Fleetwood Mac

53 bars, 3:07, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Jazz / BluesPopUnder 90 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
53
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10 and 44-52 -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 68 BPM
ALBATROSS · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 27 and 43.

LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 68 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

53 bars across 3 sections: 47 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Albatross?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Albatross hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

53 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 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 Albatross?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 19, 27 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 53 BARS ANALYSED
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