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Alapaap · Eraserheads

EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Groove B -- Part B
64 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGIBJN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alapaap on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30, ride through bars 31-46, hi-hat through bars 47-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 4 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Alapaap -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 30, 56, 64, 74, 80, 88 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, I -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-121 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-121 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 63-81 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-124 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alapaap?

115 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 Alapaap hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Alapaap?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 30, 56, 64, 74, 80, 88 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED