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Ziggy Stardust · David Bowie

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 30 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesEBJS1S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ziggy Stardust on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

57 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
63
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 3-61 and kick and crashes through bars 62-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-18 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x---------------------------------------x---------------x-------|
Ziggy Stardust -- 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 6, 32, 44, 52, 54, 56 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-63 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ziggy Stardust?

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 Ziggy Stardust hard to play on drums?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ziggy Stardust?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 32, 44, 52, 54, 56 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED