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Alexander · Myslovitz

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Groove N -- Part N
95 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alexander on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-26, ride through bars 27-31, hi-hat through bars 32-57, ride through bars 58-59 and hi-hat through bars 60-110.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x--x|
BD |x--x----x--x----|
Alexander -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- C, A -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-22 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-31 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-32 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-61 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 65-83 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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