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Stranger · Scardust

Stranger · Scardust
EXERCISE 21 OF 67
Join Part V to Part S5 (bars 37-39)
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0 / 67 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, PART S5
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stranger on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-12, hi-hat through bars 13-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27 and toms through bars 28-30, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    58
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------x-----|
Stranger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BF, V -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part V and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S3 and Part V -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part V and Part S5 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-62 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part S5 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part BF -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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