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Another Space Song · Failure

EXERCISE 3 OF 8
Groove B -- Outro
90 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Space Song on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
69/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22-44 and 46-60, and 1 more place -- 90% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |XxXxXxXx-----ooo|
SD |----x-------x---|
T1 |---------x------|
T2 |----------x-----|
FT |--------x-------|
BD |x-------x--x----|
HF |x---------------|
Another Space Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-68 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Another Space Song?

84 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 Another Space Song hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED