Stranger · Scardust

144 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 146 BPM, 4:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58, 60 and 62, and 8 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
STRANGER · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 63 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 12 sections: 28 keep time, 69 are fills, 22 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-95.

PART V
PART S3
PART V
PART S5
CHORUS
PART BG
PART S9
CHORUS 2
9 groovesASVBGS5S9+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranger?

146 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

60 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?

144 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

20 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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