Satellite Of Love · Lou Reed

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
36/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-5, 26-30 and 46-60, and 3 more places -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SATELLITE OF LOVE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 8 sections: 93 keep time and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-108.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satellite Of Love?

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 Satellite Of Love hard to play on drums?

36 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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