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Satellite · Sex Pistols

EXERCISE 24 OF 51
Run P1 · Part P (bars 40-45)
101 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART P
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Satellite on drums

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.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-25, ride through bars 26-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-40, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- K, I -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-21 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-87 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 66-90 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-97 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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