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Speed Of Light · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 6 OF 33
Groove B
80 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK, CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
CHORUS 5
PART S13
CHORUS 6
9 groovesCFS13S1A+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Speed Of Light on drums

120 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-67, toms through bars 68-69, hi-hat through bars 70-87, silence through bars 88-90 and hi-hat through bars 91-92, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 27-33 and 43-49, and 8 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Speed Of Light -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 42, 64 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-15 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 16-59 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-78 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-107 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 6 and the Break 4 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Speed Of Light?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Speed Of Light hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Speed Of Light?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 26, 42, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED