Methuselah Star · Lucretia

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-28 -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
METHUSELAH STAR · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 35 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-17.

CHORUS
PART Y
PART AN
BREAK 2
7 groovesS7KYANBA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Methuselah Star?

120 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 Methuselah Star hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Methuselah Star?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 7, 18, 19 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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