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Alas De Cristal · Avalanch

EXERCISE 16 OF 16
Play the whole song with the record
104 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 104 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alas De Cristal on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-81, hi-hat through bars 82-87 and ride through bars 88-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-23 and 25-37, and 4 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Alas De Cristal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 76-88 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Alas De Cristal?

120 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 Alas De Cristal hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Alas De Cristal?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED