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Sexy Sadie · The Beatles

EXERCISE 9 OF 29
Fill at bar 14 (a small one)
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sexy Sadie on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-18, toms through bars 19-24, hi-hat through bars 25-37, toms through bars 38-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-62.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-25 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 35-49 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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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