Mustang Sally · Committments

113 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 25-44 and 50-51, and 8 more places -- 69.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 115 BPM
MUSTANG SALLY · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 84, 96, 100, 108, 110, 111 and 2 more.

LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 115 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 115 BPM
BARS 110-113 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 2 sections: 103 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-83.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mustang Sally?

115 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 Mustang Sally hard to play on drums?

51 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Mustang Sally?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 84, 96, 100, 108, 110, 111 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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