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Don't Talk To Strangers · Dio

EXERCISE 17 OF 69
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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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Don't Talk To Strangers on drums

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.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-30, snare through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-46, ride through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    73                               74
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------|
Don't Talk To Strangers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- Y, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-106 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part Q -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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