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Starry Night · Recca

Starry Night · Recca
EXERCISE 10 OF 58
2-bar fill at bar 11
43 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starry Night on drums

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

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
78/100

hi-hat through bars 3-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-42 and snare through bars 43-49, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-------x-----------x---|
Starry Night -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 14-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 19-30 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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