Satellite · Rise Against

127 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 8 more places -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 132 BPM
SATELLITE · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 36, 40, 56 and 14 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 11 sections: 73 keep time, 20 are fills, 3 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-119.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDS1RIM+4Fill 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?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 36, 40, 56 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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