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Satellite · Rise Against

EXERCISE 21 OF 45
Join Part J to Chorus 2 (bars 55-57)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Satellite on drums

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.

62 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
127
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-26, snare through bars 27-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x----x--x----x--|
Satellite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-76 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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?

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