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sTraNgeRs · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 18 OF 23
Run M1 · Part M (bars 38-44)
40 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART C
OUTRO
BREAK 2
7 groovesS8S1EOC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play sTraNgeRs on drums

92 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 183 BPM, 3:01 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
183 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-45, snare through bars 46-62 and silence through bars 63-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 21 and 23, and 7 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----x-x-----|
sTraNgeRs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 33, 37 and 53.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-38 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-58 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-63 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is sTraNgeRs?

183 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is sTraNgeRs hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 sTraNgeRs?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 33, 37 and 53.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED