Alone · Parkway Drive

145 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 28, and 9 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
ALONE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 26, 38, 72, 92, 94 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 108 · LANDS ON BAR 109

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 12 sections: 105 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-85.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART R
PART Y
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDAGRYB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

135 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?

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

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 24, 26, 38, 72, 92, 94 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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