Souvlaki Space Station · Slowdive

65 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 1:53 of playing, on crash, ride, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:53
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 98% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-64 -- 98% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SOUVLAKI SPACE STATION · BARS 17-18
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 2 sections: 48 keep time, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-64.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Souvlaki Space Station?

138 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 Souvlaki Space Station hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:53 at the written tempo. The course takes it in a single sitting of 3 exercises.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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