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Stellar · Incubus

EXERCISE 19 OF 32
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 52-54)
71 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEHBGL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stellar on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, ride through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-54, ride through bars 55-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 55 and 57, and 6 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Stellar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- E, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-26 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-38 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-99 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stellar?

128 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 Stellar hard to play on drums?

51 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stellar?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED