Mustang Sally · Wilson Pickett

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

Funk / SoulJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 89% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-22, 25-35 and 37-46, and 4 more places -- 89.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 109 BPM
MUSTANG SALLY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 23, 24, 47 and 48.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars: 80 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 49-84.

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

Questions

What BPM is Mustang Sally?

109 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?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Mustang Sally?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 23, 24, 47 and 48.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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