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Alienated · Animal Farm

Alienated · Animal Farm
EXERCISE 20 OF 28
Join Part C to Part A (bars 53-55)
95 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART A
PART C
PART E
PART E
PART A
PART C
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIACES11+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alienated on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-40, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 65-83, and 3 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Alienated -- 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 40 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-21 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-96 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alienated?

150 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 Alienated hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Alienated?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED