Celestial Cyst · Artificial Brain

210 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 86-88, and 2 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
CELESTIAL CYST · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 32, 33, 38, 39, 40 and 23 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 25 sections: 130 keep time, 31 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 196-208.

CHORUS
PART I
PART N
PART P
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO 2
14 groovesDINPX+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celestial Cyst?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Celestial Cyst hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Celestial Cyst?

16 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 7, 32, 33, 38, 39, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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