Star Girl · McFly

134 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PopRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 20, and 18 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 157 BPM
STAR GIRL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 27, 63, 91, 118, 122 and 1 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 118 · LANDS ON BAR 119

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 13 sections: 83 keep time, 7 are fills, 22 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-55.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART S
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesBGJOS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Star Girl?

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

Is Star Girl 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Star Girl?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 1, 27, 63, 91, 118, 122 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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