All By Myself · Eric Carmen

89 bars, 5:35, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19, 25 and 27, and 12 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
ALL BY MYSELF · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 10 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 6 sections: 28 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-10.

PART F
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesS5ICFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All By Myself?

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

Is All By Myself hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 All By Myself?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 18, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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