Better Strangers · Royal Blood

71 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 109 BPM, 3:54 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 10-15 and 24, and 2 more places -- 45.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BETTER STRANGERS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 23, 25, 30, 34, 38 and 1 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

71 bars across 7 sections: 35 keep time, 7 are fills and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART K
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAS7DKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Better Strangers?

109 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Better Strangers hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Better Strangers?

7 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 16, 23, 25, 30, 34, 38 and 1 more.

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