Deathstar · Before The Dawn

134 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 27 and 29, and 4 more places -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 161 BPM
DEATHSTAR · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 17, 41, 43, 44, 45, 77 and 15 more.

LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 161 BPM
BARS 43-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 161 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 21 are fills, 54 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-76.

CHORUS
PART D
PART M
PART T
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCMDS6Z+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathstar?

161 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Deathstar 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Deathstar?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 17, 41, 43, 44, 45, 77 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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