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Stargazers · Nightwish

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove C -- Chorus 3
0 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stargazers on drums

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.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-56, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Stargazers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-22 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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