Strange Ways · KISS

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

RockFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-16, 20-25 and 27, and 10 more places -- 47.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
STRANGE WAYS · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 32 and 56.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 4 sections: 73 keep time, 3 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-82.

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

Questions

What BPM is Strange Ways?

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 Ways 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?

82 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Strange Ways?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 8, 32 and 56.

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