Song For Emma · Saxon

121 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 23 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SONG FOR EMMA · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 60, 77, 97 and 107.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 15 sections: 69 keep time, 6 are fills, 8 are stops and 27 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 16-24.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
PART S10
PART A
CHORUS 4
10 groovesCGAS1S10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song For Emma?

132 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 Song For Emma hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Song For Emma?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 60, 77, 97 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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