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All By Myself (Remastered) · Eric Carmen

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesS5CGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All By Myself (Remastered) on drums

91 bars, 6:02, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-20, toms through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, silence through bars 33-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-----x-|
All By Myself (Remastered) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 18 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-25 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-79 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is All By Myself (Remastered)?

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 (Remastered) hard to play on drums?

36 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 All By Myself (Remastered)?

13 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 18 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED