Stranger Things · Periphery

202 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Progressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 8 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
STRANGER THINGS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 33, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 85 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 79-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 14 sections: 55 keep time, 91 are fills, 14 are stops and 35 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-176.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S7
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesS10ECS7BF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stranger Things?

135 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 Things hard to play on drums?

63 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Things?

12 fills to learn, played 91 times: bars 33, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 85 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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