Saturday Night Special (Album) · Lynyrd Skynyrd

154 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 3 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL (ALBUM) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 32, 36, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 132-133 · LANDS ON BAR 134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 12 sections: 121 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-119.

CHORUS
PART O
PART O
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAOVAAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saturday Night Special (Album)?

120 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 Special (Album) hard to play on drums?

52 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Night Special (Album)?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 32, 36, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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