Under Star · Shocking Lemon

99 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Pop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-8, 12-17 and 20, and 7 more places -- 43.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 177 BPM
UNDER STAR · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 19, 27 and 9 more.

LOOP · 177 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 177 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

99 bars across 6 sections: 77 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-64.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDOMPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Under Star?

177 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 Under Star hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Under Star?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 19, 27 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED
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