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Saturday · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 36 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART A
PART G
PART A
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGDAM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Saturday on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 2:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 3-10, hi-hat through bars 11-25, snare through bars 26-27, hi-hat through bars 28-58, snare through bars 59-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-72, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-13, 15-17 and 20-21, and 7 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Saturday -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 34, 50 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- G, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-31 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-72 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Saturday?

113 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 hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 33, 34, 50 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED