Outer Space · Ad Infinitum

245 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 5:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
245
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 47-49, 51-53 and 55-56, and 11 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
OUTER SPACE · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 22-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

245 bars across 22 sections: 100 keep time, 30 are fills, 30 are stops and 73 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 236-245.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S13
CHORUS 3
PART AL
PART S20
18 groovesQCS13S20AL+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Outer Space?

196 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 Outer Space hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

245 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Outer Space?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 245 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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