Margaritaville · Jimmy Buffett

126 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Country / FolkRock120 to 149 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31, 34-63 and 66-79, and 3 more places -- 91.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 128 BPM
MARGARITAVILLE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 64, 80, 111, 119 and 126.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 126
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars: 115 keep time, 6 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-31.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Margaritaville?

128 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 Margaritaville hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Margaritaville?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 64, 80, 111, 119 and 126.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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