Satellite · Guster

150 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-42, 49-51 and 53-57, and 5 more places -- 45.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SATELLITE · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 48, 60, 128, 136 and 144.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 12 sections: 127 keep time, 6 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-42.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesBHKS1C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satellite?

132 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 Satellite hard to play on drums?

50 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 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 Satellite?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 46, 48, 60, 128, 136 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED
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