Celestial Voyage · Not Cynic at all

126 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56-58, 60-66 and 108-113, and 1 more place -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CELESTIAL VOYAGE · BARS 56-57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 15, 17, 49, 51, 67 and 7 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 13 sections: 82 keep time, 14 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-30.

PART C
PART J
PART P
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesYMJCP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celestial Voyage?

180 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 Voyage hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Celestial Voyage?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 15, 17, 49, 51, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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