Starlight (Album) · Muse

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-44, 69-88 and 113-120 -- 63.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 122 BPM
STARLIGHT (ALBUM) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 104.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 7 sections: 105 keep time, 2 are fills, 1 is a stop and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-44.

CHORUS
PART B
PART S3
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesABDS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starlight (Album)?

122 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Starlight (Album) hard to play on drums?

42 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Starlight (Album)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 100 and 104.

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