Staring At The Sun (Full Band) · Threshold

151 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 32 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 71 keep time, 38 are fills, 4 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-97.

PART B
CHORUS
PART R
PART Y
PART AB
PART AH
PART AO
BREAK
10 groovesLS11RABAH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Staring At The Sun (Full Band)?

177 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Staring At The Sun (Full Band) hard to play on drums?

47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 Staring At The Sun (Full Band)?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 and 32 more.

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