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Constellations · Tokyo Shoegazer(東京酒吐座)

Constellations · Tokyo Shoegazer(東京酒吐座)
EXERCISE 9 OF 59
Groove F
94 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Constellations on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, snare through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, ride through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-56, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |-x--x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x--x------x-----|
Constellations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 43-61 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-85 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-93 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part AB -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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