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Satellites · Periphery

EXERCISE 23 OF 97
Run L1 · Part L (bars 32-49)
71 / 269 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 6
JOIN · 15
LINK · 4
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Satellites on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
269
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50, silence through bars 51-54, snare through bars 55-57 and ride through bars 58-65, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    34                                               35
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------X-----------g-----X-----------|------g-----------g-----X-----------------g-g-g-|
BD |x-----------------------------------------x-----|------------------------------x-----------------|
Satellites -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CE -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 10-50 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-66 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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