Stargazers · Nightwish

136 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-13 and 19-21, and 8 more places -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
STARGAZERS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 136
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 17 sections: 103 keep time, 1 is a fill and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 64-77.

PART A
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCGAVR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stargazers?

125 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 Stargazers hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Stargazers?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 136.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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