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Back To Strangers · Rehash

EXERCISE 2 OF 27
Groove E -- Part E
31 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFENS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Back To Strangers on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-63 and ride through bars 64-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x-----g-----x-----gg|
BD |x---x-x-------x-----x-x---------|
Back To Strangers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Back To Strangers?

77 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 Back To Strangers hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Back To Strangers?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 71 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED