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Aliens Exist · blink-182

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART Q
PART W
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesEQLHW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aliens Exist on drums

168 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-44 and toms through bars 45-53, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-20, 31-43 and 77-90 -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------------|
Aliens Exist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 21, 26, 29, 45, 47 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- E, Q -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-130 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-100 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Aliens Exist?

212 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Aliens Exist hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Aliens Exist?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 21, 26, 29, 45, 47 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED