← SONGS

Saturday · Couch

EXERCISE 25 OF 55
Groove U
58 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART E
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART N
PART X
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAGELCN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saturday on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-55, silence through bars 56-57, hi-hat through bars 58-61, silence through bars 62-63 and kick and crashes through bars 64-71, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16 and 18-24 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r--r----r---|
Saturday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 25, 46, 47, 70, 79 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-37 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 52-61 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Saturday?

116 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 Saturday hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Saturday?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 1, 25, 46, 47, 70, 79 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED