Safari Song · Greta Van Fleet

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 21, and 13 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 88 BPM
SAFARI SONG · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 15 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

84 bars across 7 sections: 51 keep time, 21 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-43.

PART A
CHORUS
PART X
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEAHACAX+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Safari Song?

88 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Safari Song hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Safari Song?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 22, 24, 26 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED
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