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Albatross · Corrosion Of Conformity

Albatross · Corrosion Of Conformity
EXERCISE 12 OF 53
Groove J
90 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Albatross on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-116, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------------x---|
RD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-------|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |------x---------|x-----x-----x---|
Albatross -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, AH -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 10-79 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-121 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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