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Alberto Balsalm · Aphex Twin

Alberto Balsalm · Aphex Twin
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBCACZW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alberto Balsalm on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-7, ride through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-13, ride through bars 14-15 and snare through bars 16-19, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-7, 10-13 and 16-19, and 5 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x--x----xx-x----|
Alberto Balsalm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-86 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alberto Balsalm?

94 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 Alberto Balsalm hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED