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Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum · Royal Blood

EXERCISE 29 OF 37
Groove R -- Outro 2
59 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, ride through bars 61-68 and kick and crashes through bars 69-71.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---------------------------x-x---------x-x-----|
Better Strangers 100% Accurate Drum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-54 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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