Alma Mater · Moonspell

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 5:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 14-16, and 13 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 100 BPM
ALMA MATER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 21, 38, 39, 46, 55 and 9 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 38-39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 6 sections: 111 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-138.

CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCTMGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alma Mater?

100 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 Alma Mater hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Alma Mater?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 21, 38, 39, 46, 55 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
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