Alexander · Myslovitz

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PopAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-13, 15-17 and 32-33, and 11 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 108 BPM
ALEXANDER · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 18, 26, 31 and 23 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 29 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-109.

PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCAENI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alexander?

108 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 Alexander hard to play on drums?

62 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Alexander?

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 14, 18, 26, 31 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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