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Behind Space '99 · In Flames

EXERCISE 3 OF 58
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Y
PART Z
PART AB
PART Y
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFBYMR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Behind Space '99 on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12 and snare through bars 13-18, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 85-92 and 109-115 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|
Behind Space '99 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 6-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Behind Space '99?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Behind Space '99 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Behind Space '99?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED