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Stranded · Alien Ant Farm

EXERCISE 26 OF 60
Fill at bar 49 and 53
83 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART N
PART B
PART E
PART J
PART E
PART N
CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesREBNQ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stranded on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-56, snare through bars 57-75, hi-hat through bars 76-81, ride through bars 82-87 and snare through bars 88-102, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62 and 66, and 7 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Stranded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 29, 30, 37, 41, 49 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-38 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-50 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stranded?

133 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 Stranded hard to play on drums?

56 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stranded?

12 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 13, 29, 30, 37, 41, 49 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED