Partie Saxo · Bullgrim

181 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 43-50 and 52-67, and 5 more places -- 49.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
PARTIE SAXO · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 94 and 166.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 9 sections: 160 keep time, 3 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-157.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Partie Saxo?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Partie Saxo hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Partie Saxo?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 51, 94 and 166.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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