Stratego · Iron Maiden

173 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22-24, and 32 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
STRATEGO · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 41, 49, 53 and 21 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 107 keep time, 27 are fills and 27 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-92.

PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART B
OUTRO
6 groovesFBGCAK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stratego?

138 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 Stratego 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Stratego?

17 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 41, 49, 53 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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