Mr. Saxobeat · Alexandra Stan

101 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

ElectronicPop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 67% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-30, 32-38 and 40-46, and 3 more places -- 67.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 127 BPM
MR. SAXOBEAT · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 31, 39, 47, 56, 84 and 85.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 127 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 7 sections: 89 keep time, 6 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-75.

PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mr. Saxobeat?

127 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 Mr. Saxobeat hard to play on drums?

55 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 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 Mr. Saxobeat?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 31, 39, 47, 56, 84 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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