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Folding Stars · Biffy Clyro

EXERCISE 6 OF 32
Groove D
53 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Folding Stars on drums

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

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-42, ride through bars 43-62, snare through bars 63-70 and ride through bars 71-86, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Folding Stars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-53 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 58-71 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-94 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED