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Just Another Star · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
PART H
PART N
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART P
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAPHVK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Another Star on drums

141 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, ride through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28 and ride through bars 29-31, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 8 more places -- 18.6% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Just Another Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 20, 32 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, K -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-15 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-67 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Just Another Star?

192 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 Just Another Star hard to play on drums?

46 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Just Another Star?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 12, 20, 32 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED