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constellations · prussian blue

constellations · prussian blue
EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Groove J
37 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART P, PART R
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART L
PART P
PART R
PART K
OUTRO
BREAK 3
9 groovesDS12RKL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play constellations on drums

122 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-41 and snare through bars 42-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40 and 83-90 -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
constellations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 31, 45, 49, 65, 71, 72 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- K, L -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 29-41 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-63 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-68 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is constellations?

220 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 constellations hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 constellations?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 31, 45, 49, 65, 71, 72 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED