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Wandering Star · Portishead

EXERCISE 7 OF 10
Groove G
90 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 10 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Wandering Star on drums

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

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-3 and ride through bars 4-97.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
RD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x--------xx-x--------x|
Wandering Star -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED