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Starlight (Album) · Muse

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starlight (Album) on drums

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

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, snare through bars 45-53, silence through bars 54-60, snare through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-88 and snare through bars 89-112, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-53 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 65-116 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED