Andromeda · gru

179 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 84-90 and 92-97 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
ANDROMEDA · BARS 84-85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 13, 37, 45, 46, 47 and 54 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 17 sections: 80 keep time, 60 are fills, 6 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-97.

COUNT-IN
PART K
PART U
PART AA
PART AV
PART BB
PART BF
PART BL
PART BV
OUTRO
15 groovesCIAABVBFBB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Andromeda?

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 Andromeda hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Andromeda?

14 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 13, 37, 45, 46, 47 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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