Strangeland · Mister Misery

243 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-4, 6-7 and 57-58, and 43 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 250 BPM
STRANGELAND · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 25, 33, 41 and 30 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 19 sections: 74 keep time, 36 are fills, 98 are stops and 23 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART E
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S17
13 groovesKEAMN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Strangeland?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Strangeland hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Strangeland?

12 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 25, 33, 41 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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