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Satellite · Guster
EXERCISE 10 OF 32
Run C1 · Part C (bars 43-48)
120 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
6 groovesBHKS1C+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Satellite on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-42, toms through bars 43-48, hi-hat through bars 49-65, ride through bars 66-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-100, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Satellite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-101 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-131 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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