Saturday · Fall Out Boy

172 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 33 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
SATURDAY · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 33, 37, 49, 57, 61 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

172 bars across 10 sections: 104 keep time, 27 are fills and 30 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART AC
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPHCACT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saturday?

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

Is Saturday hard to play on drums?

54 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Saturday?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 33, 37, 49, 57, 61 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED
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