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The Dying Star · Funeral North

The Dying Star · Funeral North
EXERCISE 21 OF 52
Groove K
74 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART P
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJCSS13F+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Dying Star on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
76/100

ride through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-35, toms through bars 36-47, hi-hat through bars 48-69, silence through bars 70-72 and ride through bars 73-74, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23 and 25-31 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
The Dying Star -- 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 8, 24, 32, 44, 45, 47 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-36 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 45-75 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Dying Star?

100 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 The Dying Star hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 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 The Dying Star?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 44, 45, 47 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED