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Space Cadet · Kyuss

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove D -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Space Cadet on drums

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.

14 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
6:12
DIFFICULTY
14/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, silence through bars 29-44 and toms through bars 45-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |x-----x-----xx--|
FT |--------------x-|
BD |--x-x-----------|
Space Cadet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 8 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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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