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Stratego · Iron Maiden

EXERCISE 34 OF 60
Fill at bar 105 (a small one)
129 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stratego on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-52, ride through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-67 and snare through bars 68-69, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
Stratego -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-42 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part B and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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