Description
Notes From John
BPM = 84, in 4/4. The Intro is stacked quarter and sixteenth hits with rests between them and one-bar repeats, closing on a crash. Verse 1 at 0:17 is hat sixteenths with circle-plus and circle marks, the first marked “fast open/close pedal”, and grace notes before many snare strokes, marked “drags happen 16th note before hits”. From the fifth Verse 1 bar the bracketed snare notes are marked “continue ghosts on off 16ths”. The Re-Intros bring back the stacked hits, the Solo and Verse 3 follow the Verse groove (Verse 3 with an accent and a triplet), and Guitar In is a 4-bar rest before Scream (“Why?”). The Break Down at 2:14 returns to the stacked hits at the cue “Listen all y’all…”, and the Outro is grace-note hits and a 2-bar rest. The section boxes carry the record’s timestamps.
For the player
Mike D plays drums on the track. Start the drags a sixteenth note before the hits, as printed, and keep the ghosts on the off sixteenths. At BPM = 84 the job is the feel.
Drums Sheet Music for “Sabotage” by Beastie Boys.
