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If I could be a constellation · Kessoku Band

EXERCISE 11 OF 73
Groove O
60 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART K
PART M
PART R
CHORUS
PART AE
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesYMKRAU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I could be a constellation on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, toms through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-71, toms through bars 72-73, hi-hat through bars 74-97 and ride through bars 98-105, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 12 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-x-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |-g--x--g-x--x--g|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
If I could be a constellation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 52 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is If I could be a constellation?

123 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 If I could be a constellation hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 If I could be a constellation?

18 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED