Riding On The Milky Way · Alternative Competition 5

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
31/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 39-41, and 3 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RIDING ON THE MILKY WAY · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 24 and 61.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 3 are fills, 5 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART C
PART S9
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAS9LBC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Riding On The Milky Way?

120 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Riding On The Milky Way hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Riding On The Milky Way?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 20, 24 and 61.

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