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Saturday In The Park · Chicago

EXERCISE 21 OF 36
Hold Groove E for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 39-46)
76 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saturday In The Park on drums

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.

53 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
107
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-27 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 69-86 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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