Cygnus Terminal · Vektor

331 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 12:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
331
LENGTH
12:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-46 and 210-223 -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
CYGNUS TERMINAL · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 16, 24, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 75 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 56-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

331 bars across 25 sections: 203 keep time, 81 are fills, 11 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 194-208.

PART K
CHORUS
PART G
PART K
PART BD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesSKAAAEG+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cygnus Terminal?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Cygnus Terminal 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

331 bars, about 12:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 87 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 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 Cygnus Terminal?

17 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 16, 24, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 331 BARS ANALYSED
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