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WHERE THE SKIES END · Starset

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove C -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WHERE THE SKIES END on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-18, silence through bars 19-34, ride through bars 35-46, silence through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-68, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-x-x-x---|
WHERE THE SKIES END -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 90-113 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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