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Utopia · Rings Of Saturn

EXERCISE 7 OF 91
9-bar fill at bar 1
80 / 241 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 8
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Utopia on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
241
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-13, hi-hat through bars 14-68 and snare through bars 69-70, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1.......2.......
CC |--------x---x---|
HH |o---------------|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |----xxxx--------|
Utopia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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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