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Alison Hell · Annihilator

EXERCISE 2 OF 79
Groove AB -- Chorus
15 / 140 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART H
PART M
PART S5
PART X
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART BA
PART X
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesABXBAHS16+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alison Hell on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-13, toms through bars 14-20, ride through bars 21-38, silence through bars 39-41 and ride through bars 42-47, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-52, 68-72 and 118-122 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    48
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x--x--------x--x--x-----x--x--------x--x--|
Alison Hell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 32 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-38 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alison Hell?

131 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 Alison Hell hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Alison Hell?

19 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 20, 32 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED