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Alerion · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove K -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART A
PART F
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKS1ARG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alerion on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-39, hi-hat through bars 40-49, toms through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-42, 44-49 and 52-54, and 1 more place -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |----o-------o-------o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------xx----x---------xx----|
Alerion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 35, 39, 43, 50, 51 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-44 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alerion?

110 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 Alerion hard to play on drums?

55 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 35, 39, 43, 50, 51 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED