Satellite · Sex Pistols

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21, 23 and 25, and 21 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
SATELLITE · BAR 61
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 26 and 24 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 10-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 30 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-38.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKICPZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satellite?

100 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?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 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?

11 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 10, 11, 12, 20, 26 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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