Space Song · Beach House

98 bars, 5:18, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 87% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-64, 66 and 73-96, and 1 more place -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 74 BPM
SPACE SONG · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 5 sections: 89 keep time and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-64.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Space Song?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Space Song hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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