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[Alexandros] - Rock The World (MV) · alexandros

EXERCISE 7 OF 86
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 86 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 4
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesCFS1AJI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play [Alexandros] - Rock The World (MV) on drums

202 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-26, hi-hat through bars 27-54, toms through bars 55-56 and snare through bars 57-58, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-24, 59-64 and 67-72, and 11 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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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-----|
[Alexandros] - Rock The World (MV) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 42, 54, 65 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-83 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is [Alexandros] - Rock The World (MV)?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is [Alexandros] - Rock The World (MV) hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 [Alexandros] - Rock The World (MV)?

21 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 18, 25, 26, 42, 54, 65 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED