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Alien · Atlanta Rhythm Section

EXERCISE 13 OF 25
Groove L -- Outro
128 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBJLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alien on drums

148 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
4:56
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-105, ride through bars 106-120, hi-hat through bars 121-125, ride through bars 126-129, hi-hat through bars 130-141 and ride through bars 142-148.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-38, 42-52 and 54-56, and 7 more places -- 70.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 57, 79, 129, 137, 141, 144 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alien?

120 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 hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 4:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Alien?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 57, 79, 129, 137, 141, 144 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED