Astryx · Exophobos

83 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-31 and 59-65, and 1 more place -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ASTRYX · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 38, 42, 43 and 7 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 42-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 43 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEIS1S6M+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Astryx?

140 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 Astryx hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Astryx?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 13, 24, 38, 42, 43 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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