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Stronger Than Me · Amy Winehouse

EXERCISE 4 OF 7
Fill at bar 80 (a small one)
79 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stronger Than Me on drums

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

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
46/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    3                4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x-x-x-xxx-x-x-|x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x--------x|x-----x----x----|
Stronger Than Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED