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No Stranger to You… · Loathe

EXERCISE 4 OF 55
Groove J -- Chorus
109 / 204 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
PART C
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesJCGXD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play No Stranger to You… on drums

204 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-35, hi-hat through bars 36-60, snare through bars 61-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-92, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-29 and 31, and 18 more places -- 45.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|
No Stranger to You… -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 30, 56, 60, 72, 84, 95 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- C, G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 16-147 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-54 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-97 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-146 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is No Stranger to You…?

170 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 No Stranger to You… hard to play on drums?

44 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 No Stranger to You…?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 30, 56, 60, 72, 84, 95 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED