Stronger · Kelly Clarkson

101 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Pop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 14-20 and 23, and 9 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
STRONGER · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 61.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 8 sections: 87 keep time, 2 are fills and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-101.

CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBFCS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stronger?

116 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 Stronger hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stronger?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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