Saturn 5 · Inspiral Carpets

120 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

ElectronicAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-21, 26-33 and 42-53, and 2 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 128 BPM
SATURN 5 · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 73, 96, 97, 105 and 113.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 96-97 · LANDS ON BAR 98 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 5 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-21.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
6 groovesBDCS1E+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Saturn 5?

128 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 Saturn 5 hard to play on drums?

45 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Saturn 5?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 73, 96, 97, 105 and 113.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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