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Misinterpreting Constellations · Seeyouspacecowboy

EXERCISE 23 OF 81
Run M1 · Part M (bars 36-41)
55 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART D
PART L
PART M
PART R
PART C
PART AC
PART P
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesS13DRACC+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Misinterpreting Constellations on drums

128 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-37, hi-hat through bars 38-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-19 -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxx---xxxxx---|
Misinterpreting Constellations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 23, 27, 37, 39, 41, 43 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, AC -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-61 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-40 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-85 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-52 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Misinterpreting Constellations?

165 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 Misinterpreting Constellations hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Misinterpreting Constellations?

20 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 23, 27, 37, 39, 41, 43 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED