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Stargazer · Rainbow

EXERCISE 1 OF 92
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART U
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stargazer on drums

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.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
8:00
DIFFICULTY
81/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27 and ride through bars 28-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-x---------x---x-x---------|
Stargazer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-28 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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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