Starless · A Perfect Circle

103 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 26 and 30-32 -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
STARLESS · BARS 18-19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 and 35 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 10-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 22-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 31-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 9 sections: 21 keep time, 41 are fills and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

CHORUS
PART R
PART Y
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK 3
9 groovesS9IAERS8+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starless?

135 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Starless hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Starless?

8 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 11 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
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