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Star Girl · McFly

EXERCISE 5 OF 41
Groove G -- Part G
49 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Star Girl on drums

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.

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
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-19, hi-hat through bars 20-107, snare through bars 108-110, hi-hat through bars 111-130 and silence through bars 131-134.

The beat

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.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Star Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-32 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-74 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-96 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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