Starship Trooper · Yes

252 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 194-207 -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
STARSHIP TROOPER · BAR 200
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 20, 23, 25, 39, 42 and 22 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

252 bars across 17 sections: 102 keep time, 28 are fills, 35 are stops and 64 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 195-207.

PART A
PART J
PART Z
CHORUS
PART AQ
PART BB
PART BC
PART BG
16 groovesS7JABBZ+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starship Trooper?

90 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 Starship Trooper hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

252 bars, about 8:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Starship Trooper?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 20, 23, 25, 39, 42 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 252 BARS ANALYSED
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