Starbelly · Pig Destroyer

125 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 2:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 16 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 187 BPM
STARBELLY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 40 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 14 sections: 45 keep time, 46 are fills, 8 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-48.

CHORUS
PART K
PART S4
PART S
PART S7
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCXKSAV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starbelly?

187 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 Starbelly hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Starbelly?

20 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 14 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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