The Bug of Planet Zee · Krewmen, McMillan, Cole

98 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 18-29 and 34-44, and 3 more places -- 59.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
THE BUG OF PLANET ZEE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 1 is a fill and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-13.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Bug of Planet Zee?

135 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 The Bug of Planet Zee hard to play on drums?

52 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED
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