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Afraid To Shoot Strangers · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 25 OF 49
Groove O
129 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K, PART R
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART K
PART R
PART K
PART Y
BREAK
8 groovesJKBFS11+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Afraid To Shoot Strangers on drums

189 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 10:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
10:43
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56, ride through bars 57-152, hi-hat through bars 153-172 and silence through bars 173-189.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57, 59 and 61, and 31 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    59
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Afraid To Shoot Strangers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 44, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- J, K -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 98-112 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part Y -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Afraid To Shoot Strangers?

77 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 Afraid To Shoot Strangers hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 10:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Afraid To Shoot Strangers?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 44, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED