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starman · Mgk

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCS1FHS9+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play starman on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-69, silence through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-24, 26-32 and 39-51, and 2 more places -- 63.5% 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 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x------------x--|
starman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-70 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is starman?

92 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 starman hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED