Strange · Built to Spill

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-24, 35-49 and 60-66 -- 60.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 78 BPM
STRANGE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 53, 57, 69, 70, 72 and 2 more.

LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 69-70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 78 BPM
BARS 74-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

76 bars across 6 sections: 60 keep time, 8 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-24.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strange?

78 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 hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Strange?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 32, 53, 57, 69, 70, 72 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED
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