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EXERCISE 3 OF 45
Groove D -- Part D
69 / 154 BARS COVERED
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starlight on drums

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.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33, ride through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, ride through bars 66-74 and kick and crashes through bars 75-81, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Starlight -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-42 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-75 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part I -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 94-147 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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