Locust Star · Neurosis

139 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 6:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-26, 28-35 and 46, and 9 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 91 BPM
LOCUST STAR · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 47, 51, 59, 67, 87 and 3 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 7 sections: 112 keep time, 10 are fills, 8 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-139.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHEQCJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Locust Star?

91 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 Locust Star hard to play on drums?

47 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?

139 bars, about 6:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Locust Star?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 27, 47, 51, 59, 67, 87 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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