Stargazer · Rainbow

184 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 8:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 11, and 17 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 92 BPM
STARGAZER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 27 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

184 bars across 14 sections: 125 keep time, 33 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-163.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AN
PART AF
PART BA
PART AS
12 groovesDASANAFBA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stargazer?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Stargazer hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 8:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 27 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stargazer?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED
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