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AALA Song · AALA

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove D -- Part D
34 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
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
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play AALA Song on drums

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

20 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
20/100

snare through bars 3-11, silence through bars 12-19, toms through bars 20-34, snare through bars 35-37, ride through bars 38-41 and silence through bars 42-46, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-x-----x-x-|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
AALA Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- F, B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 34-55 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 54-92 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-116 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED