Sirius · Alan Parsons Project

52 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 1:52 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
1:52
DIFFICULTY
23/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 10 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 111 BPM
SIRIUS · BAR 32
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 38.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 3 sections: 20 keep time, 2 are fills, 19 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-14.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sirius?

111 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 Sirius hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 1:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Sirius?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 38.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Alan Parsons Project drum parts

AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →