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Stronger (Kanye West Cover) · Breakdown Of Sanity

EXERCISE 2 OF 74
Groove H -- Part H
14 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART H
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART V
PART T
PART AB
16 groovesFHABJD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stronger (Kanye West Cover) on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
72/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, snare through bars 35-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40 and snare through bars 41-68, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17 and 49-55 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Stronger (Kanye West Cover) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 26, 30, 34, 38, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, R -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-11 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 23-32 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-35 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stronger (Kanye West Cover)?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Stronger (Kanye West Cover) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 Stronger (Kanye West Cover)?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 6, 26, 30, 34, 38, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED