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Deathstar · Before The Dawn

Deathstar · Before The Dawn
EXERCISE 20 OF 45
3-bar fill at bar 79
83 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deathstar on drums

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.

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
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-43, toms through bars 44-45 and snare through bars 46-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Deathstar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A, M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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