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Space Song · Beach House

EXERCISE 6 OF 9
Groove D
91 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 9 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Space Song on drums

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

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-98.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Space Song -- 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-66 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED