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The Saddest Song · The Ataris

EXERCISE 28 OF 32
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 96-98)
120 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Saddest Song on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-66, silence through bars 67-69 and hi-hat through bars 70-131.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-30 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 27-54 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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