Strange Days · Three Days Grace

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Rock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 28-30 and 40-45, and 4 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
STRANGE DAYS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 39, 50, 54, 60, 67, 72 and 1 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 9 sections: 45 keep time, 7 are fills, 13 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-19.

PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCHS8S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strange Days?

95 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 Days hard to play on drums?

49 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Strange Days?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 39, 50, 54, 60, 67, 72 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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