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Far Beyond The Sun · Yngwie Malmsteen

EXERCISE 1 OF 73
Groove K -- Part K
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0 / 73 PASSED · 44 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, CHORUS, PART M
PART K
PART M
PART M
PART Q
PART AD
CHORUS
PART M
PART I
8 groovesAHIMQAD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Far Beyond The Sun on drums

240 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-41, toms through bars 42-43 and ride through bars 44-71, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-25, 28-33 and 110, and 27 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-|
Far Beyond The Sun -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 42, 43, 50, 51 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-34 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-52 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Far Beyond The Sun?

168 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 Far Beyond The Sun hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Far Beyond The Sun?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 6, 42, 43, 50, 51 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED