Cynic -The Space for This · cynjc

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15, 17-18 and 33-35, and 3 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 · 120 BPM
CYNIC -THE SPACE FOR THIS · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 44 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 22 sections: 53 keep time, 50 are fills, 4 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-72.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART AW
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART S18
PART P
16 groovesKPS18RA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cynic -The Space for This?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cynic -The Space for This hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 22 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 Cynic -The Space for This?

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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