Full Steam Spacemachine · Royal Republic

98 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 21, and 8 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FULL STEAM SPACEMACHINE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 36, 40, 52 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time, 11 are fills, 24 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-60.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesAGDS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Full Steam Spacemachine?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Full Steam Spacemachine hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Full Steam Spacemachine?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 36, 40, 52 and 3 more.

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