Constellations · Tokyo Shoegazer(東京酒吐座)

156 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-23, 25-36 and 38-43, and 5 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
CONSTELLATIONS · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 44, 48, 50 and 46 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 15 sections: 85 keep time, 52 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-43.

PART C
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART V
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJGCVAB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Constellations?

97 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 Constellations hard to play on drums?

62 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Constellations?

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 8, 20, 24, 44, 48, 50 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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