Star · The Bursthead

270 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 6:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-44, 53-93 and 98-133, and 2 more places -- 59.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 162 BPM
STAR · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

270 bars across 17 sections: 237 keep time, 13 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-93.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
10 groovesCHDBS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Star?

162 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 Star hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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