ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhere Out In Space on drums

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.

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

TEMPO: 195 BPM
TIME: 8/4
BARS: 136
LENGTH: 5:15
DIFFICULTY: 67/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, ride through bars 17-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    54                               55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
CC |x-------------------------------|--------x---x---x---x---x---x---|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
T2 |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-x-|xxx-x-x-x-x-x---xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|

Somewhere Out In Space -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part H and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 11-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus and Part AG -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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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