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Alaba · Evan Craft x Intimidad Worship

Alaba · Evan Craft x Intimidad Worship
EXERCISE 25 OF 91
2-bar fill at bar 39
87 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART U
PART AS
OUTRO
12 groovesIUEMD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alaba on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-31, toms through bars 32-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and toms through bars 41-70, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-26, 28-29 and 31, and 4 more places -- 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.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Alaba -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- I, U -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-71 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alaba?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Alaba hard to play on drums?

52 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Alaba?

21 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 2, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED