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Algol · Nebula
EXERCISE 11 OF 42
Chorus into Part D with the record (bars 10-17)
76 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART D
8 groovesBDLFP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Algol on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-38, ride through bars 39-66 and snare through bars 67-70, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 22-24 and 26-33, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |-x-x-x-x-x-xx-x-|
Algol -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 25, 42, 44, 46, 70 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-22 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Algol?

130 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 Algol hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Algol?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 25, 42, 44, 46, 70 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED