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747 (Strangers In The Night) · Saxon

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Outro 2
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PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCBS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 747 (Strangers In The Night) on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-20 and hi-hat through bars 21-164.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 69 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
747 (Strangers In The Night) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 76 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-53 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-52 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 747 (Strangers In The Night)?

132 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 747 (Strangers In The Night) hard to play on drums?

56 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 747 (Strangers In The Night)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 20, 76 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED