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Alone · Kevin Sherwood, Clark S. Nova

Alone · Kevin Sherwood, Clark S. Nova
EXERCISE 1 OF 80
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 243 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 55 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART F
CHORUS
PART P
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART N
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJFPNS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, snare through bars 36-42, hi-hat through bars 43-112 and snare through bars 113-122, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, P -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-66 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-47 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-92 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-67 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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