What planet is this?! · Seatbelts

162 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 110-112 and 147-152 -- 6.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
WHAT PLANET IS THIS?! · BARS 147-148
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 19 and 89 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 17-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 18 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 44-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 13 sections: 43 keep time, 95 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-9.

PART C
PART I
PART AB
CHORUS
PART AQ
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAKAQIHAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What planet is this?!?

146 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 What planet is this?! hard to play on drums?

63 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 What planet is this?!?

14 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 17, 18, 19 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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