Saboteur · philoo

114 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SABOTEUR · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 38, 63, 64, 81, 82 and 2 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 11 sections: 77 keep time, 8 are fills, 17 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART M
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEQIM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saboteur?

130 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 Saboteur hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Saboteur?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 1, 38, 63, 64, 81, 82 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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