Starry Night · Recca

118 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-49, 51-57 and 59-61 -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
STARRY NIGHT · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 24 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 13 sections: 53 keep time, 30 are fills, 8 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-61.

PART B
PART H
PART T
PART S9
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFTHBS9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starry Night?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Starry Night hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Starry Night?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 22 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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