Stranger · Counterparts

140 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25 and 27, and 5 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
STRANGER · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 33 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 15 sections: 56 keep time, 39 are fills, 25 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-92.

PART E
CHORUS
PART T
PART AC
PART AF
PART AC
PART S12
PART AO
14 groovesNACAOEAF+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranger?

135 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 Stranger hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stranger?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 2, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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