The Stroke · Billy Squier

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

RockPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 19 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 91 BPM
THE STROKE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 6 sections: 74 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-50.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Stroke?

91 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 The Stroke hard to play on drums?

47 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Stroke?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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