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Stranger In A Strange Land · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 10 OF 78
Groove E
52 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART A
PART AL
PART AD
PART AE
OUTRO
8 groovesCADALAES+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stranger In A Strange Land on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, ride through bars 27-28, hi-hat through bars 29-30 and ride through bars 31-32, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Stranger In A Strange Land -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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