Utopia · Rings Of Saturn

241 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 26 and 30-31, and 10 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
UTOPIA · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 1-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 11-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

241 bars across 21 sections: 137 keep time, 47 are fills, 23 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-51.

PART F
PART K
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
16 groovesZKAUFM+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Utopia?

150 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 Utopia hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

241 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 28 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Utopia?

15 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 241 BARS ANALYSED
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