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Alien Shivers · Vola

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 32 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART S8
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAFCS8E+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alien Shivers on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, silence through bars 41-42, snare through bars 43-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 25-40 and 59-80 -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |----------------x-x-x-x-|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x---x-------------------|
Alien Shivers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 56, 111, 112 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- A, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-97 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 107-128 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alien Shivers?

124 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 Shivers hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Shivers?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 56, 111, 112 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED