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Saturday Night · Herman Brood and His Wild Romance

Saturday Night · Herman Brood and His Wild Romance
EXERCISE 20 OF 33
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 53-55)
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PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saturday Night on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-80 and snare through bars 81-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9 and 13, and 14 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C, D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Saturday Night?

92 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 Night hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Night?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 28, 36, 48 and 16 more.

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