Alone · Kevin Sherwood, Clark S. Nova

243 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54-55 and 102, and 15 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
ALONE · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 53, 56, 57, 65, 73, 77 and 40 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 56-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 85-91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 20 sections: 145 keep time, 47 are fills, 4 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-45.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
10 groovesJFPNS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

180 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?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 19 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 53, 56, 57, 65, 73, 77 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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