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So Much (For) Stardust · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 12 OF 72
2-bar fill at bar 28
90 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJTGHC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Much (For) Stardust on drums

186 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-45, ride through bars 46-51, toms through bars 52-53, ride through bars 54-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-103, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46, 48 and 50-51, and 23 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
So Much (For) Stardust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 28, 29, 45, 52, 53, 57 and 43 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-36 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 31-46 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Much (For) Stardust?

178 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is So Much (For) Stardust hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 So Much (For) Stardust?

14 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 28, 29, 45, 52, 53, 57 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED