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Safari Song · Greta Van Fleet

EXERCISE 23 OF 44
Groove I
51 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Safari Song on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-84.

The beat

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.

    9
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |X-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x--g--------------------x--g--------|
BD |x-----x--------------x-----x--x--------------x--|
Safari Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-64 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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