Stranger In A Strange Land · Iron Maiden

144 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 15, and 8 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 12, 13, 16, 18, 26 and 41 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 12-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 13 sections: 80 keep time and 47 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-103.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AL
PART AD
PART AE
8 groovesCADALAES+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranger In A Strange Land?

107 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 In A Strange Land hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stranger In A Strange Land?

19 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 4, 12, 13, 16, 18, 26 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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