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Alma Mater · Moonspell

EXERCISE 15 OF 36
2-bar fill at bar 38
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0 / 36 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCTMGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alma Mater on drums

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.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, toms through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-62, toms through bars 63-72 and snare through bars 73-87, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-------x---x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-------o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-------|
Alma Mater -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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