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Sara · Fleetwood Mac

EXERCISE 7 OF 25
Groove F
66 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sara on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28 and snare through bars 29-30, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-|
Sara -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED