Alone Infection · Arc Systems Works

165 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 45-48 and 81-83, and 3 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 147 BPM
ALONE INFECTION · BAR 38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11 and 45 more.

LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 3-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 10-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 147 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 22 sections: 48 keep time, 51 are fills, 20 are stops and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-73.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AD
PART S16
CHORUS 3
PART AO
10 groovesBXWS16AO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone Infection?

147 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 Infection hard to play on drums?

57 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 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Infection?

16 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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