Troopers Of The Stars · Dragonforce

248 bars at 201 BPM -- fast, and 4:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 42 and 54-55, and 28 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 201 BPM
TROOPERS OF THE STARS · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 35, 120, 136, 144, 148 and 3 more.

LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 120 · LANDS ON BAR 121 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 201 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 17 sections: 165 keep time, 10 are fills, 52 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 179-212.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCEIKS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Troopers Of The Stars?

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

Is Troopers Of The Stars hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Troopers Of The Stars?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 35, 120, 136, 144, 148 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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