Starless · King Crimson

271 bars, 16:22, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
16:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 150, 152 and 154, and 18 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
STARLESS · BAR 152
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 33, 34, 43, 64, 67, 68 and 35 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

271 bars across 28 sections: 159 keep time, 41 are fills, 11 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-164.

PART H
PART S10
PART S12
PART S14
PART V
PART CC
PART CN
22 groovesOCCS14UCE+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starless?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Starless hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

271 bars, about 16:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 24 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 Starless?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 33, 34, 43, 64, 67, 68 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 271 BARS ANALYSED
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