Alerion with The Final Episode · Asking Alexandria

315 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 9:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
315
LENGTH
9:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 67 and 71, and 26 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ALERION WITH THE FINAL EPISODE · BAR 97
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 35, 37, 39 and 55 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

315 bars across 20 sections: 96 keep time, 62 are fills, 115 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 215-221.

PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART U
16 groovesADUOAAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alerion with The Final Episode?

110 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Alerion with The Final Episode hard to play on drums?

52 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

315 bars, about 9:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 with The Final Episode?

26 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 23, 25, 27, 35, 37, 39 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 315 BARS ANALYSED
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