Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage · Rush

296 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
7:20
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 183-185, 187-189 and 191-193, and 2 more places -- 7.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
CYGNUS X-1, BOOK I: THE VOYAGE · BAR 184
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 71, 76, 88, 89, 91, 93 and 33 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 93 · LANDS ON BAR 94

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 41 sections: 106 keep time, 39 are fills, 38 are stops and 102 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 182-201.

BREAK 14
PART H
PART S24
PART AA
PART S28
CHORUS
BREAK 27
29 groovesBAS28S41AAA+24Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage?

180 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 Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage hard to play on drums?

54 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 7:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 71, 76, 88, 89, 91, 93 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED
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