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Ali-A Intro · Ali-A

Ali-A Intro · Ali-A
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove H -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
12 groovesHBDGS10+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ali-A Intro on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-10, snare through bars 11-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42 and silence through bars 43-47, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-40 and 71-74, and 1 more place -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ali-A Intro -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- H, B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ali-A Intro?

124 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 Ali-A Intro hard to play on drums?

30 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Ali-A Intro?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 41 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED