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Stella · All Time Low

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCTFXH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stella on drums

155 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
63/100

ride through bars 3-10, toms through bars 11-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-50, toms through bars 51-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-66, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 27-29, and 16 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 26, 42, 58, 66, 82 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-88 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-62 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stella?

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

Is Stella hard to play on drums?

63 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 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 Stella?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 18, 26, 42, 58, 66, 82 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED