← SONGS

Sabotage · Beastie Boys

EXERCISE 3 OF 27
4-bar fill at bar 23
23 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFS4US5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sabotage on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, toms through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-30, toms through bars 31-34 and silence through bars 35-39, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 15-18 and 31-34, and 2 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |XX----XX--------|
FT |XX----XX--------|
BD |XX----XX--------|
Sabotage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-42 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Sabotage?

84 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 Sabotage hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sabotage?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 7, 8, 11, 12, 23, 24 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED