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Perfect Strangers · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 9 OF 20
Groove G
100 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Perfect Strangers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-120 and silence through bars 121-124.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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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