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Starface {drums?}} · White Zombie

EXERCISE 29 OF 55
Chorus into Part Q with the record (bars 70-77)
125 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART C
7 groovesDSCQX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starface {drums?}} on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-103, ride through bars 104-105, hi-hat through bars 106-140 and ride through bars 141-147.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 14 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx--x---x-|
Starface {drums?}} -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29, 33, 49 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-93 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Starface {drums?}}?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Starface {drums?}} hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Starface {drums?}}?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 29, 33, 49 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED