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EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove N -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stranger on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-75 and snare through bars 76-99, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |------o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---x---|
Stranger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- N, AF -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-24 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-66 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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