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Star · The Bursthead

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Star on drums

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

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
32/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-94, silence through bars 95-96, snare through bars 97-165 and kick and crashes through bars 166-167, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 8-158 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 53-168 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 192-239 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED