Sail · Awolnation

112 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-23 and 25, and 25 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SAIL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 87.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 5 sections: 97 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-54.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
5 groovesBS1AS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sail?

120 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 Sail hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sail?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 55 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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