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Alerion with The Final Episode · Asking Alexandria

EXERCISE 1 OF 115
Groove S
0 / 315 BARS COVERED
0 / 115 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
PART D
PART I
PART U
PART R
PART V
CHORUS
PART AE
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART O
PART U
16 groovesADUOAAI+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 9
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alerion with The Final Episode on drums

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.

52 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
3/4
BARS
315
LENGTH
9:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100

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 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    97
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x-----|
Alerion with The Final Episode -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- S, AE, R -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-193 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-230 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-140 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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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