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Stronger Than All · Arclite

EXERCISE 12 OF 56
Groove S -- Part S
84 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
PART H
PART S4
PART AC
PART H
PART S10
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AE
CHORUS 3
PART H
17 groovesAHHACSAE+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 17
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stronger Than All on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-16, silence through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-45, snare through bars 46-56 and silence through bars 57-59, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 85-100, 109-116 and 125-140 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    85               86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x-x-|--x-x-x---x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|--x---x---x---x-|
HF |--x---x---x-----|x-------x-------|
Stronger Than All -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- AH, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-17 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-35 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part S4 and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stronger Than All?

130 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 Than All hard to play on drums?

60 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Than All?

4 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED