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Strange Brew · Cream

EXERCISE 16 OF 26
13-bar fill at bar 27
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0 / 26 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCJHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strange Brew on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-27, ride through bars 28-39, hi-hat through bars 40-49 and ride through bars 50-63.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Strange Brew -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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