Alone · Heart

59 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 2:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockPopUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-9 and 30-38 -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 87 BPM
ALONE · BARS 5-6
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 29, 39, 47 and 51.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

59 bars across 5 sections: 31 keep time, 5 are fills, 2 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-38.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBS3FS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

87 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?

41 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 10, 29, 39, 47 and 51.

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