Sara · Fleetwood Mac

99 bars, 6:11, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-14, 19-22 and 25, and 10 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 64 BPM
SARA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 62.

LOOP · 64 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 5 sections: 85 keep time, 1 is a fill and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-61.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sara?

64 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sara hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sara?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 62.

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