Saturn AI · Sza

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 22-23, and 11 more places -- 55.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 89 BPM
SATURN AI · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

LOOP · 89 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 8 sections: 52 keep time, 1 is a fill and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-56.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
BREAK
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
6 groovesGDFS1S4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saturn AI?

89 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 Saturn AI hard to play on drums?

34 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Saturn AI?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 20.

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