Stars · Simply Red

208 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 47 more places -- 49.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 195 BPM
STARS · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 125 and 129.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 5 sections: 143 keep time, 3 are fills, 55 are stops and 6 are silent.

CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBS2S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stars?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Stars hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Stars?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 125 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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