Don't Talk To Strangers · Dio

148 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65, 67 and 69-70, and 8 more places -- 21.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS · BARS 73-74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 23, 27, 32, 33, 34 and 28 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 10 sections: 46 keep time, 34 are fills, 46 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 122-126.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
8 groovesYCQES1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Don't Talk To Strangers?

110 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 Don't Talk To Strangers hard to play on drums?

59 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Don't Talk To Strangers?

22 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 15, 23, 27, 32, 33, 34 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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