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Spaceship Earth · Enter Shikari

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
10 groovesGCBJM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spaceship Earth on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-15, hi-hat through bars 16-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-20 and 46-48, and 1 more place -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|----------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx-x-x--x--x|-x--x--x-x--x---|
Spaceship Earth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 21, 49, 57, 61, 62 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-66 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 58-74 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Spaceship Earth?

122 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 Spaceship Earth hard to play on drums?

55 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Spaceship Earth?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 13, 21, 49, 57, 61, 62 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED