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Aloo Gobi · Weezer

EXERCISE 32 OF 33
3-bar fill at bar 72
74 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART V
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesBGDVT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Aloo Gobi on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 3-30, snare through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-42, ride through bars 43-52, hi-hat through bars 53-65 and silence through bars 66-67, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 12, and 8 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 30, 31, 32, 33, 41 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- B, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-52 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part V and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Aloo Gobi?

97 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 Aloo Gobi hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Aloo Gobi?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 30, 31, 32, 33, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED