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starjump · julie

EXERCISE 9 OF 16
Groove F
89 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
INTRO
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play starjump on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-98 and kick and crashes through bars 99-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 23 more places -- 56% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 14, 22 and 30.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Intro and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is starjump?

117 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 starjump hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 starjump?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 6, 14, 22 and 30.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED