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February Stars · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 28 OF 31
2-bar fill at bar 61
64 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesPDGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play February Stars on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-45, snare through bars 46-60, toms through bars 61-62 and snare through bars 63-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 49-52 and 55, and 5 more places -- 22.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
February Stars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 29, 30, 42 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- P, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-35 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is February Stars?

80 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 February Stars hard to play on drums?

49 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 February Stars?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 14, 21, 22, 29, 30, 42 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED