The Prettiest Star · David Bowie

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and mid tom.

PopRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
22/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-41 and 44-67, and 3 more places -- 94% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
THE PRETTIEST STAR · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 11 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-35.

INTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesBS1S11S3S5+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Prettiest Star?

110 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 The Prettiest Star hard to play on drums?

22 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 8 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and mid tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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