Shining Star · Earth, Wind & Fire

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 2:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / Soul90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-20, 22-23 and 32-55, and 3 more places -- 73.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 103 BPM
SHINING STAR · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 103 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars across 4 sections: 59 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-67.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shining Star?

103 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 Shining Star hard to play on drums?

55 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Shining Star?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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