Starlight · Accept

154 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-16 and 19-21, and 14 more places -- 24.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
STARLIGHT · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 65, 81, 89, 92, 93 and 5 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 11 sections: 121 keep time, 11 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-61.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART O
PART R
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEIDOH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starlight?

160 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 Starlight hard to play on drums?

58 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?

154 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 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 Starlight?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 33, 65, 81, 89, 92, 93 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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