Alexandra · Reality Club

39 bars, 2:10, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
39
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21 and 25-28 -- 35.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 72 BPM
ALEXANDRA · BAR 14
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 38.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

39 bars across 4 sections: 27 keep time, 2 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

COUNT-IN
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alexandra?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Alexandra hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

39 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Alexandra?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 30 and 38.

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