Major Tom · Peter Schilling

198 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on ride, snare and floor tom.

Pop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 53-72 and 101-118, and 1 more place -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
MAJOR TOM · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

198 bars across 11 sections: 181 keep time and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-198.

CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Major Tom?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Major Tom hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the speed of the hand keeping time the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and floor tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED
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