Blizzard Spaceship FULL · Apodemus

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11-12 and 17-25, and 2 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BLIZZARD SPACESHIP FULL · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 10, 15, 16, 26, 28, 29 and 59 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 28-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 20 sections: 47 keep time, 65 are fills, 3 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-87.

PART B
CHORUS
PART Q
PART M
BREAK 3
PART Z
PART AF
PART AP
PART Q
OUTRO 2
15 groovesIBMQAF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blizzard Spaceship FULL?

95 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 Blizzard Spaceship FULL hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Blizzard Spaceship FULL?

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 10, 15, 16, 26, 28, 29 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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