Satellites · Periphery

269 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 8:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-36, 38-39 and 42, and 5 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
SATELLITES · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 33, 49, 57, 81, 105, 113 and 32 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

269 bars across 22 sections: 145 keep time, 38 are fills, 6 are stops and 59 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-26.

PART C
PART L
PART E
PART S9
PART AB
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesBQCES21ES9+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Satellites?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Satellites hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

269 bars, about 8:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Satellites?

19 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 33, 49, 57, 81, 105, 113 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 269 BARS ANALYSED
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