Sailor song1 · gigi perez

32 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 1:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
32
LENGTH
1:21
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-32 -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
SAILOR SONG1 · BAR 22
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

32 bars across 7 sections: 18 keep time, 1 is a stop and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-32.

COUNT-IN
PART A
PART A
BREAK 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS5S1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sailor song1?

95 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 Sailor song1 hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

32 bars, about 1:21 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 32 BARS ANALYSED
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