Wandering Star · Portishead

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 85% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-27 and 29-35, and 8 more places -- 84.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 80 BPM
WANDERING STAR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 2 sections: 96 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-97.

OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wandering Star?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wandering Star hard to play on drums?

62 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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