Back In The Saddle · Aerosmith

68 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-36, 45-46 and 49-51, and 1 more place -- 42.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BACK IN THE SADDLE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 6 sections: 50 keep time and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-36.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Back In The Saddle?

120 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 Back In The Saddle hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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.

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