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Star Crossed · Arcturus

EXERCISE 11 OF 62
Groove H
108 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C, CHORUS 3
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
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Star Crossed on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-101, ride through bars 102-117, hi-hat through bars 118-165, silence through bars 166-169 and hi-hat through bars 170-202.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-|
BD |x-----------|
Star Crossed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-155 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 45-75 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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