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Stars · Hum

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
PART N
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKCNS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stars on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-14, ride through bars 15-18, snare through bars 19-22 and ride through bars 23-26, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 27-29 and 31, and 7 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x-xx--xx--xx--x-|
Stars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 32 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-35 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stars?

80 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 Stars hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

9 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 32 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED