WHERE THE SKIES END · Starset

166 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockElectronic120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 11-12 and 14, and 17 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
WHERE THE SKIES END · BAR 55
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 62, 84, 90, 100, 104, 158 and 2 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 104 · LANDS ON BAR 105

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 101 keep time, 8 are fills and 52 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 67-83.

CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
BREAK 3
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesCGS3S9S+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is WHERE THE SKIES END?

148 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 WHERE THE SKIES END hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 WHERE THE SKIES END?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 62, 84, 90, 100, 104, 158 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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