Alien Blues · Vundabar

52 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 2:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 29-31 -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 86 BPM
ALIEN BLUES · BAR 10
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 28, 48 and 52.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 52
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 9 sections: 32 keep time, 4 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-47.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART I
PART K
PART N
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPHNIK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alien Blues?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blues hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Blues?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 8, 28, 48 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
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