Stray Heart · Green Day

194 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-35 and 56-58, and 3 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 205 BPM
STRAY HEART · BARS 2-3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 38, 39, 47, 92, 93, 101 and 8 more.

LOOP · 205 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118
LOOP · 205 BPM
BAR 125 · LANDS ON BAR 126 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

194 bars across 12 sections: 122 keep time, 14 are fills, 43 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-35.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART G
7 groovesBGNPS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stray Heart?

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

Is Stray Heart hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Stray Heart?

6 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 38, 39, 47, 92, 93, 101 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED
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