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The Stroke · Billy Squier

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Stroke on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-50, snare through bars 51-54, hi-hat through bars 55-67, snare through bars 68-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-82.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Stroke -- 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 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-67 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 66-75 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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