Messages from the Stars · Rah Band

200 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 7:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
7:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-21, 23-29 and 48-54, and 3 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
MESSAGES FROM THE STARS · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 12 sections: 181 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-177.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART M
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEIAMLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Messages from the Stars?

105 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 Messages from the Stars hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 7:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

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