← SONGS

Strutter · KISS

EXERCISE 14 OF 54
Groove F
58 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBHUZLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strutter on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-69, ride through bars 70-85, hi-hat through bars 86-89, ride through bars 90-101 and kick and crashes through bars 102-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-7 and 11-12, and 7 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 21 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-67 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Strutter?

131 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 Strutter hard to play on drums?

58 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Strutter?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 9, 13, 21 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED