Slow Dance With A Stranger · Danger Radio

136 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Funk / SoulAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-42 and 67-69, and 4 more places -- 30.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
SLOW DANCE WITH A STRANGER · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 46, 62, 70 and 15 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 8 sections: 102 keep time, 22 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-61.

PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFABNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slow Dance With A Stranger?

158 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 Slow Dance With A Stranger hard to play on drums?

55 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Slow Dance With A Stranger?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 12, 36, 44, 46, 62, 70 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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