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Locust Star · Neurosis

Locust Star · Neurosis
EXERCISE 23 OF 30
Run E2 · Part E (bars 56-76)
132 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Locust Star on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
6:07
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-35, ride through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-59, snare through bars 60-75 and ride through bars 76-83, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x-x-x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x-----|--------x-x-x---|
BD |x-----x-------x-|x-x---x---------|
Locust Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- E, Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-111 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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