Libera part I - Saturine Spheres · Ne Obliviscaris

332 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 9:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
332
LENGTH
9:43
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 166-170, 172-181 and 236-237, and 8 more places -- 8.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
LIBERA PART I - SATURINE SPHERES · BAR 166
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 21, 22, 25 and 86 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

332 bars across 27 sections: 194 keep time, 92 are fills, 2 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-164.

PART C
PART N
PART U
PART AR
CHORUS
PART AY
PART AV
PART BL
18 groovesATAYBLUAR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Libera part I - Saturine Spheres?

108 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Libera part I - Saturine Spheres hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

332 bars, about 9:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 109 exercises over 44 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 Libera part I - Saturine Spheres?

24 fills to learn, played 92 times: bars 13, 14, 18, 21, 22, 25 and 86 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 332 BARS ANALYSED
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