My Journey To The Stars · Burzum

262 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 6:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-35, 82-103 and 153-184 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MY JOURNEY TO THE STARS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 218, 219, 224 and 225.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 218-219 · LANDS ON BAR 220 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 24 sections: 163 keep time, 5 are fills, 39 are stops and 41 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-184.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFIGDA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is My Journey To The Stars?

150 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 My Journey To The Stars hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in My Journey To The Stars?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 218, 219, 224 and 225.

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