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Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (accurate drums) · Phil Collins

EXERCISE 15 OF 50
Groove H -- Part H
37 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART A
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPHS9ADC+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (accurate drums) on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-57, silence through bars 58-69, kick and crashes through bars 70-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-39, 45 and 47, and 2 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-xox-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (accurate drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 10 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 -- P, A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-49 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (accurate drums)?

120 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 Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (accurate drums) hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Tarzan - Strangers Like Me (accurate drums)?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 29, 30, 31 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED