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Beneath A Lightless Star · Holy Fawn

EXERCISE 22 OF 54
Run Q1 · Part Q (bars 37-42)
56 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
PART P
PART W
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIAAPEAK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beneath A Lightless Star on drums

94 bars, 5:05, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-15, silence through bars 16-18, snare through bars 19-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23 and 25, and 8 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x-x-------------|
Beneath A Lightless Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-44 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-59 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beneath A Lightless Star?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Beneath A Lightless Star hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beneath A Lightless Star?

9 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 26, 34, 42, 58, 62, 66 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED