Sexy Sadie · The Beatles

62 bars, 3:16, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

RockPopUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 8-10 and 12-13, and 12 more places -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 75 BPM
SEXY SADIE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 7, 14, 16, 24, 28 and 5 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 7 sections: 41 keep time, 11 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-13.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sexy Sadie?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sexy Sadie hard to play on drums?

53 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?

62 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Sexy Sadie?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 7, 14, 16, 24, 28 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED
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