Stranger In A Strange Land · Leon Russell

78 bars, 4:20, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55, 57-59 and 62-77 -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 16, 35, 39 and 50.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 10 sections: 54 keep time, 5 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-77.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
PART S5
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
VERSE
8 groovesMBGKE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranger In A Strange Land?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Stranger In A Strange Land hard to play on drums?

58 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 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stranger In A Strange Land?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 16, 35, 39 and 50.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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