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Alone · blink-182

EXERCISE 5 OF 23
Groove D -- Part D
55 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCBDFG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-25, toms through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-42, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 43-45 and 47-58, and 2 more places -- 45.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 61-67 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alone?

130 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?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Alone?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 46 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED