Albatross · Corrosion Of Conformity

173 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 5:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-15 and 18-20, and 11 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 136 BPM
ALBATROSS · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 56, 64 and 19 more.

LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BARS 80-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 136 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 11 sections: 96 keep time, 27 are fills, 33 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 96-106.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S
PART I
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFIAHAES+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Albatross?

136 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 Albatross hard to play on drums?

50 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 5:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Albatross?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 56, 64 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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