Alone · Undercode

166 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 25-39 and 57-71, and 2 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
ALONE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 40, 48 and 19 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 99 keep time, 25 are fills and 28 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-39.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART O
PART F
PART W
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIFOA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alone?

140 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?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 24, 40, 48 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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