Strange Brew · Cream

63 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 2:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 18 and 20-21, and 2 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 104 BPM
STRANGE BREW · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 17 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 27-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 13 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 51-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 104 BPM
BARS 60-63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

63 bars across 4 sections: 34 keep time, 23 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strange Brew?

104 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 Strange Brew hard to play on drums?

52 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Strange Brew?

4 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED
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