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Alkaline · Sleep Token

EXERCISE 36 OF 48
Run R1 · Outro (bars 22-53)
44 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesRAGMS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alkaline on drums

72 bars, 3:54, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, snare through bars 18-56 and toms through bars 57-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26 and 30, and 7 more places -- 20.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|
Alkaline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 15, 17, 21 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- R -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-16 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-22 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alkaline?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Alkaline hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Alkaline?

16 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 15, 17, 21 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED