Watch Me Shine · Star-Lord Band

177 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 47 more places -- 49.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
WATCH ME SHINE · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 177
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

177 bars across 12 sections: 136 keep time, 1 is a fill, 19 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-88.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
7 groovesIMS2S1Q+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Watch Me Shine?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Watch Me Shine hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Watch Me Shine?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 177.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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