Nasa · Dance Gavin Dance

162 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:19 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 72-78, and 12 more places -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
NASA · BAR 72
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 14 sections: 65 keep time, 19 are fills, 48 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-51.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART K
PART J
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQJDKV+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Nasa?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Nasa hard to play on drums?

60 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Nasa?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 26, 28, 30, 32, 33 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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