Asteroids (Pt. II) · Maha Sohona

77 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-17 and 21, and 14 more places -- 52.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
ASTEROIDS (PT. II) · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 60 and 68.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 7 sections: 54 keep time, 3 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-28.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Asteroids (Pt. II)?

127 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 Asteroids (Pt. II) hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Asteroids (Pt. II)?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 44, 60 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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