AALA Song · AALA

144 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
20/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31, 35 and 47-55, and 1 more place -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
AALA SONG · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 14 sections: 102 keep time, 3 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 69-88.

PART B
PART S3
PART D
PART F
PART F
PART K
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesADKFB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is AALA Song?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is AALA Song hard to play on drums?

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

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