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Cygnus Terminal · Vektor

EXERCISE 23 OF 105
Run K1 · Part K (bars 32-53)
123 / 331 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 16
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cygnus Terminal on drums

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.

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
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
331
LENGTH
12:58
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-53, and 44 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |xxxxx-xx-xx-|
BD |x-----x--x--|
Cygnus Terminal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 87 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-62 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-32 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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