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Son Devouring His Saturn · Girl Of Glass

Son Devouring His Saturn · Girl Of Glass
EXERCISE 8 OF 36
Groove D
23 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Son Devouring His Saturn on drums

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

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------|
Son Devouring His Saturn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 9-17 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-46 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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