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A Single Moment Of Sincerity · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 24 OF 62
Groove P
78 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART B
PART C
PART K
PART N
PART K
CHORUS
PART AA
PART Z
BREAK 2
PART AG
OUTRO
13 groovesUAGKCN+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Single Moment Of Sincerity on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, snare through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63 and snare through bars 64-111, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 122-137 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    122
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |r-----------r-----------r-----------r-----------|
A Single Moment Of Sincerity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 37, 67, 71, 75, 79 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- AG, U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-31 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 40-64 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Single Moment Of Sincerity?

130 BPM, in 4/4, 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 A Single Moment Of Sincerity hard to play on drums?

60 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 A Single Moment Of Sincerity?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 37, 67, 71, 75, 79 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED