Saturday Night Special · Lynyrd Skynyrd

155 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 3 more places -- 17% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 34, 38, 55 and 6 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 14 sections: 120 keep time, 12 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 137-155.

CHORUS
PART P
PART P
PART M
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBPIMX+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saturday Night Special?

118 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 hard to play on drums?

58 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?

155 bars, about 5:14 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, ride, 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 Special?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 34, 38, 55 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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