Saturday In The Park · Chicago

107 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 20, and 8 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 116 BPM
SATURDAY IN THE PARK · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 104, 105, 106 and 107.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 104-107 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 19 sections: 66 keep time, 5 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-15.

PART B
PART I
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
8 groovesEIBLF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saturday In The Park?

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 In The Park hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In The Park?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 68, 104, 105, 106 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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