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Slow Dance With A Stranger · Danger Radio

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 45 PASSED · 42 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Dance With A Stranger on drums

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.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-70, snare through bars 71-74, hi-hat through bars 75-90 and snare through bars 91-92, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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