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Like Starscream · On Broken Wings

EXERCISE 15 OF 64
Run G1 · Chorus (bars 18-28)
62 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART O
PART U
PART X
PART S10
PART AB
PART AH
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesGAJABOAH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 6
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Like Starscream on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
62/100

toms through bars 2-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-32, snare through bars 33-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36 and ride through bars 37-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-26 and 34, and 5 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    119
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Like Starscream -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 43, 44, 59, 72, 73 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-18 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Like Starscream?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Like Starscream hard to play on drums?

62 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Like Starscream?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 22, 43, 44, 59, 72, 73 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED