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Strange · Built to Spill

EXERCISE 18 OF 20
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strange on drums

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.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, ride through bars 50-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66 and ride through bars 67-76.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
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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