Come Sail Away · Styx

165 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67, 72 and 74, and 9 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
COME SAIL AWAY · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 31 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 39-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 50-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 10 sections: 108 keep time, 37 are fills, 3 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-165.

PART A
PART B
PART L
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXABAEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come Sail Away?

114 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 Come Sail Away 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Come Sail Away?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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