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Troopers Of The Stars · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 26 OF 35
Fill at bar 120, 136, 144 and 160 (a small one)
198 / 248 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART K
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCEIKS2+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Troopers Of The Stars on drums

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.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
201 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-28, hi-hat through bars 29-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-72, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--x---xx--x---|
Troopers Of The Stars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-30 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-113 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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