Far from the Stars · Helloween

201 bars at 171 BPM -- fast, and 4:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
171 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-33 and 77-83, and 7 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 171 BPM
FAR FROM THE STARS · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 26, 34, 38 and 37 more.

LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 171 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 24 sections: 119 keep time, 43 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 127-134.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART O
7 groovesHADOK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Far from the Stars?

171 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 Far from the Stars hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Far from the Stars?

24 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 26, 34, 38 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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