Astronomy · Metallica

149 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 6:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-13, 15-16 and 18-21, and 7 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
ASTRONOMY · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 47, 51, 59, 67, 68, 69 and 10 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 86 BPM
BARS 67-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 12 sections: 120 keep time, 16 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-30.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAVGDC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Astronomy?

86 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 Astronomy hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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.

How many fills are in Astronomy?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 47, 51, 59, 67, 68, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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