Stronger Than Me · Amy Winehouse

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Jazz / BluesFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 91% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3-19 and 21-37, and 3 more places -- 91.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 92 BPM
STRONGER THAN ME · BARS 3-4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars: 79 keep time, 1 is a fill and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-79.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stronger Than Me?

92 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 Me hard to play on drums?

46 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?

81 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 25 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 Than Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 80.

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