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Starlight · Muse

EXERCISE 27 OF 27
Play the whole song with the record
120 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 121 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starlight on drums

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.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
50/100

toms through bars 1-43, hi-hat through bars 44-52, ride through bars 53-61, toms through bars 62-87, hi-hat through bars 88-103 and snare through bars 104-112, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 52-94 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 91-105 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 95-116 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED