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Counting Stars (Complete) · OneRepublic

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove H -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHBAS1N+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Counting Stars (Complete) on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-16, snare through bars 17-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 7 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-oxx-oxx-oxx-ox|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Counting Stars (Complete) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-46 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-59 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-91 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 95-101 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Counting Stars (Complete)?

107 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 Counting Stars (Complete) hard to play on drums?

60 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Counting Stars (Complete)?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 28, 29, 30 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED