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Alien Alien · Nayutalien

Alien Alien · Nayutalien
EXERCISE 34 OF 43
Groove Z -- Part Z
96 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
CHORUS
PART B
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART Z
7 groovesDGBFV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alien Alien on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-31, snare through bars 32-36, hi-hat through bars 37-76, kick and crashes through bars 77-81 and silence through bars 82-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 37-39 and 41-43, and 7 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Alien Alien -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-57 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-77 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and the Chorus 4 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alien Alien?

152 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 Alien Alien hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Alien Alien?

9 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED