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Per Aspera Ad Astra · Haggard

EXERCISE 7 OF 74
Groove C
105 / 269 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART D
PART I
PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART A
PART AD
PART AG
PART X
OUTRO 2
15 groovesMXDADA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Per Aspera Ad Astra on drums

269 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 175 BPM, 5:01 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, toms through bars 31-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-54, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-68, 70 and 72-73, and 18 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    65
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Per Aspera Ad Astra -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- M, AD, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-14 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-57 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-91 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-101 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Per Aspera Ad Astra?

175 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Per Aspera Ad Astra hard to play on drums?

49 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

269 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Per Aspera Ad Astra?

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 23, 24, 25, 31, 32 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 269 BARS ANALYSED