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Space Truckin' · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 8 OF 61
Fill at bar 8 (a small one)
72 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART X
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesIXMEAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Space Truckin' on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-74, toms through bars 75-77, hi-hat through bars 78-110 and kick and crashes through bars 111-113, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67, 69 and 73, and 3 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    87
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |------------------------------x-----------x-----|
Space Truckin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 24, 29, 37 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- X -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Space Truckin'?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Truckin' hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Space Truckin'?

14 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 24, 29, 37 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED