The Saddest Song · The Ataris

131 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 32-40 and 43-45, and 14 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE SADDEST SONG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 50, 58, 93, 94 and 4 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 93-94 · LANDS ON BAR 95 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 11 sections: 74 keep time, 10 are fills, 29 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-30.

CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDEJS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Saddest Song?

130 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 The Saddest Song hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Saddest Song?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 7, 8, 50, 58, 93, 94 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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