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Alone Again · Dokken

EXERCISE 1 OF 49
Groove D -- Part D
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART H
5 groovesJDHS8S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone Again on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, ride through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24 and ride through bars 25-29, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14, and 3 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, J -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-54 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-55 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alone Again?

78 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Alone Again hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Alone Again?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED