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Alone Infection · Arc Systems Works

Alone Infection · Arc Systems Works
EXERCISE 24 OF 60
Join Part X to Part W (bars 43-45)
91 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, PART W
CHORUS
PART X
PART W
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone Infection on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-17, snare through bars 18-21, silence through bars 22-32 and snare through bars 33-35, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Alone Infection -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- W, X -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-22 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-45 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-66 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 63-80 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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