estratosfera · Estratovarios

158 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-67, 69-81 and 85-91, and 3 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
ESTRATOSFERA · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 59, 63, 64 and 17 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 162 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 14 sections: 77 keep time, 23 are fills, 37 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-35.

PART A
PART D
PART H
PART D
CHORUS
PART A
PART AB
PART D
10 groovesPDAABH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is estratosfera?

162 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 estratosfera hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 estratosfera?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 19, 20, 59, 63, 64 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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