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Alone + Easy Target · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 22
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART S4
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEFS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone + Easy Target on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, snare through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-66, snare through bars 67-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 19-33 and 43-49, and 7 more places -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11               12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x-----|
Alone + Easy Target -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 38, 70, 74, 78, 82, 101 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-112 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 85-97 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 97-122 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alone + Easy Target?

124 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 + Easy Target 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 + Easy Target?

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 38, 70, 74, 78, 82, 101 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED