Peripheral Stare · Girlstoopid

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-40, 43-44 and 47-48, and 5 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PERIPHERAL STARE · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 21 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 10 sections: 77 keep time, 27 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART F
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART Z
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
8 groovesTZKPF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Peripheral Stare?

90 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 Peripheral Stare hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Peripheral Stare?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 21 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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