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Astronomy · Metallica

EXERCISE 10 OF 50
Groove C -- Part C
105 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAVGDC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Astronomy on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-97, snare through bars 98-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-149.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |ggggogggggggoggg|
Astronomy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-51 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-70 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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