Folding Stars · Biffy Clyro

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 16 and 27-33, and 2 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
FOLDING STARS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

96 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 1 is a fill, 2 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-59.

PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART B
10 groovesHEBLC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Folding Stars?

100 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 Folding Stars hard to play on drums?

52 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Folding Stars?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 70.

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