Sadie · Alkaline Trio

143 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 70-72, and 5 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
SADIE · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 24, 33, 34, 43, 59 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 13 sections: 97 keep time, 20 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-102.

PART C
PART F
PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesMFCOU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sadie?

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 Sadie hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

143 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sadie?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 24, 33, 34, 43, 59 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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