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Cygnus X-1 Book I - The Voyage · Rush

EXERCISE 18 OF 89
Fill at bar 93 (a small one)
49 / 319 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S24
BREAK 14
PART H
PART S24
PART AA
PART S28
CHORUS
PART BY
29 groovesBAAS28BYAA+24Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cygnus X-1 Book I - The Voyage on drums

319 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
319
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-8, snare through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-13 and snare through bars 14-15, and 35 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 183-185, 187-189 and 191-193, and 2 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    184
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x---------------x-------x---|
Cygnus X-1 Book I - The Voyage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 71, 76, 88, 89, 91, 93 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- BA, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Bars 51-56 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 57-92 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part S24 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S24 and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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?

63 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?

319 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 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 38 times: bars 71, 76, 88, 89, 91, 93 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 319 BARS ANALYSED