Starve · trauma ray

170 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 16, and 44 more places -- 33.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
STARVE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 32 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 74 keep time, 38 are fills, 38 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-32.

PART B
PART D
PART D
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEJDBN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Starve?

145 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 Starve hard to play on drums?

45 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Starve?

11 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 17, 21, 25 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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