Stronger · Kelly Clarkson

102 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PopElectronic90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15-16 and 18-20, and 13 more places -- 72.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 116 BPM
STRONGER · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 57 and 65.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 5 sections: 90 keep time, 3 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-56.

PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCBS1S4Fill 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?

50 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?

102 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Stronger?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 29, 57 and 65.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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