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What planet is this?! · Seatbelts

EXERCISE 17 OF 69
18-bar fill at bar 17
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0 / 69 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What planet is this?! on drums

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.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-85, ride through bars 86-90, silence through bars 91-100, hi-hat through bars 101-113, snare through bars 114-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-118, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    147              148
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x-x---x-|x--x--x-x-x---x-|
What planet is this?! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AB -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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