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Ala delta · Divididos

EXERCISE 21 OF 27
Fill at bar 91, 107, 176 and 192 (a small one)
202 / 224 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO 2
3 groovesJBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ala delta on drums

224 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 5:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
5:39
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-64, hi-hat through bars 65-73, snare through bars 74-75, hi-hat through bars 76-105, snare through bars 106-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-123, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-80, 84-88 and 92-96, and 9 more places -- 37.1% 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 |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Ala delta -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 69, 71, 73, 83, 89, 91 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 62-75 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ala delta?

158 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 Ala delta 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 5:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ala delta?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 69, 71, 73, 83, 89, 91 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED