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Alone · Undercode
EXERCISE 11 OF 61
Groove F -- Part F
106 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART A
PART F
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alone on drums

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.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 10-28 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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