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Starbelly · Pig Destroyer

EXERCISE 37 OF 71
Fill at bar 66, 78, 82 and 84 (a small one)
80 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART K
CHORUS
PART K
PART S4
PART S
PART S7
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCXKSAV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starbelly on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-31, silence through bars 32-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-47, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---x---x-|
Starbelly -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-45 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-55 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-65 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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