Stars · Hear N Aid

102 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 5:45 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10, 12-13 and 22-23, and 4 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
STARS · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23 and 12 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 8 sections: 17 keep time, 18 are fills and 60 are silent.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
5 groovesS8BJS1HFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stars?

140 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Stars hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stars?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 23 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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