Alcoholic and Drug Addicted 2 · Blade And Bath

101 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 101 BPM, 6:00 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
33/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 19-22 and 25-27, and 5 more places -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 101 BPM
ALCOHOLIC AND DRUG ADDICTED 2 · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 11 more.

LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 101 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 7 sections: 33 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS7FQS1I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alcoholic and Drug Addicted 2?

101 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Alcoholic and Drug Addicted 2 hard to play on drums?

33 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 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 Alcoholic and Drug Addicted 2?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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