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Strangers · Ethel Cain

EXERCISE 19 OF 20
Run F1 · Outro 2 (bars 57-81)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART B
PART A
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFAEBS4+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strangers on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
24/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-10, silence through bars 11-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-34 and silence through bars 35-38, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-59, 61-63 and 65-67, and 3 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |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 5 times: bars 60, 64, 68, 72 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- F, E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 39-69 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Strangers?

102 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 Strangers hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Strangers?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 60, 64, 68, 72 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED