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Stronger · Kelly Clarkson

EXERCISE 3 OF 14
Groove D
71 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesBFCS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stronger on drums

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

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-73, silence through bars 74-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-101.

The beat

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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Stronger -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 49-57 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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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