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Stand Strong · Denied

EXERCISE 31 OF 54
2-bar fill at bar 54
88 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART C
PART H
PART I
PART K
PART N
CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesQNCHI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stand Strong on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 3-29, toms through bars 30-38, snare through bars 39-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54, snare through bars 55-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-88, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-58, 61 and 64, and 8 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    101
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x-----|
Stand Strong -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 22, 38, 40, 42, 46 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- Q, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-65 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-40 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-87 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stand Strong?

130 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 Stand Strong hard to play on drums?

54 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stand Strong?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 10, 22, 38, 40, 42, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED