Natural Science · Rush

227 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 8:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
8:52
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 131-133, 138-140 and 151-152, and 3 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
NATURAL SCIENCE · BAR 131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 26, 31, 36, 44, 50 and 35 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 19 sections: 121 keep time, 41 are fills, 20 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-80.

PART B
PART N
PART AU
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
16 groovesBKNAUS19B+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Natural Science?

110 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Natural Science hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 8:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 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 Natural Science?

22 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 12, 26, 31, 36, 44, 50 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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