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Stray Heart · Green Day

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART G
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGNPS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stray Heart on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
71/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-37, snare through bars 38-39, ride through bars 40-55, hi-hat through bars 56-91 and snare through bars 92-93, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2                        3
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x--g--------x--g--|
BD |x-----x-----x--------x--|---x--------x--x--------|
Stray Heart -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-48 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 38-55 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-95 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 108-126 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 117-152 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 151-184 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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