Satch Boogie · Joe Satriani

170 bars at 222 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
222 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 101-138 -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 222 BPM
SATCH BOOGIE · BARS 101-102
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 28, 31, 32, 48, 56 and 9 more.

LOOP · 222 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 222 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 222 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 222 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 130 keep time, 15 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 102-141.

PART M
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS
7 groovesUAMQC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satch Boogie?

222 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Satch Boogie hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Satch Boogie?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 28, 31, 32, 48, 56 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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