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Stargazing · Myles Smith

Stargazing · Myles Smith
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART D
OUTRO
7 groovesBS1CDS4+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stargazing on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

9 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
9/100

silence through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-25, silence through bars 26-28, toms through bars 29-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-50, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 29-36 and 38-45, and 1 more place -- 81.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
FT |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Stargazing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Stargazing?

124 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 Stargazing hard to play on drums?

9 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED