Alone · Bee Gees

117 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 80% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-17, 21-25 and 29-40, and 7 more places -- 80.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
ALONE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 69, 73 and 102.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 7 sections: 108 keep time and 3 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-40.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

110 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Alone?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 69, 73 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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