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Starless · King Crimson

EXERCISE 10 OF 107
Join Part S2 to Part H (bars 3-5)
72 / 271 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART H
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 10
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starless on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
271
LENGTH
16:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, ride through bars 13-17, hi-hat through bars 18-30, ride through bars 31-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-43, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    152
    1...........2...........3.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------------x-----|
BD |---x-----------x-----x--------|
Starless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- CC, O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CE -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-22 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part U and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-133 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 33-142 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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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