Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum · Royal Blood

71 bars, 4:03, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 11-15 and 24, and 3 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BETTER STRANGERS 100% ACCURATE DRUM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 23, 25, 30, 34, 38 and 6 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 8 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAERMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 16, 23, 25, 30, 34, 38 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED
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