Son Devouring His Saturn · Girl Of Glass

60 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 1:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19-21 and 23-24, and 1 more place -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SON DEVOURING HIS SATURN · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 42 and 45.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

60 bars across 10 sections: 36 keep time, 4 are fills, 8 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART L
PART N
PART F
PART S
10 groovesCHNSE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Son Devouring His Saturn?

125 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 Son Devouring His Saturn hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Son Devouring His Saturn?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 28, 36, 42 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED
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