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Alasanmu · Exists

Alasanmu · Exists
EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
PART B
PART S3
PART E
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART B
PART E
PART B
9 groovesIEBAS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alasanmu on drums

174 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-24, hi-hat through bars 25-56, toms through bars 57-58, ride through bars 59-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-90, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 28 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------------------|
Alasanmu -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 58, 90, 102, 118, 126, 132 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-33 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-88 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-127 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 121-149 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alasanmu?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Alasanmu hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 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 Alasanmu?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 58, 90, 102, 118, 126, 132 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED