Star Crossed · Arcturus

202 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 3:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 43 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
STAR CROSSED · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 17, 20, 21, 29, 35, 36 and 34 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 35-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 14 sections: 122 keep time, 40 are fills, 20 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART R
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBTNRAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Star Crossed?

170 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Star Crossed hard to play on drums?

62 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 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 Star Crossed?

9 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 17, 20, 21, 29, 35, 36 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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