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Mr. Saxobeat · Alexandra Stan

Mr. Saxobeat · Alexandra Stan
EXERCISE 21 OF 21
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBCS5S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Saxobeat on drums

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

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-75, silence through bars 76-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-80, snare through bars 81-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-101.

The beat

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.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Mr. Saxobeat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-101 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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