Perfect Strangers · Deep Purple

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-24, 26-44 and 46-52, and 19 more places -- 80% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 98 BPM
PERFECT STRANGERS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 45, 55, 57, 64, 84 and 6 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 107 · LANDS ON BAR 108

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 3 sections: 103 keep time, 12 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-24.

OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Perfect Strangers?

98 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Perfect Strangers hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Perfect Strangers?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 45, 55, 57, 64, 84 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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