Somewhere Out In Space · Gamma Ray

136 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 195 BPM, 5:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 54-61 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 195 BPM
SOMEWHERE OUT IN SPACE · BARS 54-55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 30 more.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 195 BPM
BARS 4-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 31 keep time, 36 are fills, 2 are stops and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-60.

PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AK
PART AM
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS8TJHAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Somewhere Out In Space?

195 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Somewhere Out In Space hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Somewhere Out In Space?

9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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