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Alone · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 28 OF 50
Groove T
229 / 294 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART S2
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesMJQS2S15+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone on drums

294 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 7:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
294
LENGTH
7:28
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and snare through bars 34-35, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 35-41 and 44-50, and 7 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- J, M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-26 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-76 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part Q and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alone?

167 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Alone hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

294 bars, about 7:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Alone?

10 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 294 BARS ANALYSED