The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us · A Static Lullaby

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 37-39 and 41-43, and 2 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 91 BPM
THE SHOOTING STAR THAT DESTROYED US · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 24, 32, 33 and 20 more.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 91 BPM
BARS 32-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 15 sections: 50 keep time, 26 are fills, 2 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-68.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
13 groovesGJYEU+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us?

91 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 Shooting Star That Destroyed Us hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 The Shooting Star That Destroyed Us?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 24, 32, 33 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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