St. George and the Dragon · Toto

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-19, 23-28 and 45-47, and 2 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 34, 38, 39, 42, 58 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 33 are fills, 26 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-19.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART J
PART AD
7 groovesBJADZU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is St. George and the Dragon?

120 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 St. George and the Dragon hard to play on drums?

50 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 St. George and the Dragon?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 34, 38, 39, 42, 58 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED
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