Space Cadet · Kyuss

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:12 of playing, on snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
14/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 77% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-60, 69-88 and 109-124 -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SPACE CADET · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time and 56 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-88.

PART B
BREAK
PART B
BREAK 2
CHORUS
BREAK 3
CHORUS 2
BREAK 4
OUTRO
7 groovesDS9BS5S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Space Cadet?

80 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 Space Cadet hard to play on drums?

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 6:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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