Like A Star · Corinne Bailey Rae

44 bars, 2:53, at 61 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Funk / SoulJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
61 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
44
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 88% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-17 and 19-22, and 1 more place -- 87.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 61 BPM
LIKE A STAR · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

44 bars across 4 sections: 33 keep time and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-22.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesBS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Like A Star?

61 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Like A Star hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

44 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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