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Celestial Cyst · Artificial Brain

Celestial Cyst · Artificial Brain
EXERCISE 14 OF 94
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
69 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 94 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART I
CHORUS
PART E
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 21
LINK · 11
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Celestial Cyst on drums

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.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
94/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and ride through bars 21-24, and 31 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4.....
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Celestial Cyst -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 38-116 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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