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Heathens Stranger things · Twenty one Pilots

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove E -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART A
PART F
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
9 groovesDAEFS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heathens Stranger things on drums

155 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
37/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, silence through bars 22-32, hi-hat through bars 33-96, kick and crashes through bars 97-100 and hi-hat through bars 101-108, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36 and 38, and 40 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-----------|
Heathens Stranger things -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 124.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-64 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 63-125 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 100-134 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 131-150 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Heathens Stranger things?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Heathens Stranger things hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Heathens Stranger things?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 104 and 124.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED