Alone · The Blackberries.com

58 bars, 3:16, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 30, and 1 more place -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 71 BPM
ALONE · BARS 16-17
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 20 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 22-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 6 sections: 18 keep time, 26 are fills, 5 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-8.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFACBDO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

71 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Alone hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 13, 15, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 20 more.

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