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Satellite Of Love · Lou Reed

EXERCISE 14 OF 16
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 64-66)
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PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesABDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Satellite Of Love on drums

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

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42, silence through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-16 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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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