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Asteroids (Pt. II) · Maha Sohona

Asteroids (Pt. II) · Maha Sohona
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Asteroids (Pt. II) on drums

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

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4 and ride through bars 5-77.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Asteroids (Pt. II) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-74 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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