Starlight · Muse

121 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 58% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-43, 69-87 and 113-120 -- 57.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
STARLIGHT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 44, 88, 104 and 112.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 112 · LANDS ON BAR 113
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 7 sections: 107 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADEIGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starlight?

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 hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 44, 88, 104 and 112.

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