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Starship Trooper · Yes

EXERCISE 6 OF 93
Groove E
36 / 252 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART Z
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
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 11
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starship Trooper on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
252
LENGTH
8:50
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-23, hi-hat through bars 24-26, ride through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-46 and ride through bars 47-62, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    200
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------x---x-----------|
Starship Trooper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- BB, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BC -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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