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'97 · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 19 OF 95
Run B1 · Part B (bars 2-14)
70 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART X
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART AO
PART AS
OUTRO
13 groovesPACGXAS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play '97 on drums

155 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 4:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
92/100

ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-21, hi-hat through bars 22-64, ride through bars 65-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 35, and 17 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------x-----------|
HH |----o---o-------o---o---|
SD |------x-----x-----xx--x-|
BD |x---x---x-x-----x---x---|
'97 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is '97?

108 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 '97 hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 '97?

23 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED