Alpha Beta Gaga · Air

68 bars of 2/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 2:16 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ElectronicUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-32 and 41-60 -- 58.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 85 BPM
ALPHA BETA GAGA · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

68 bars across 5 sections: 63 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alpha Beta Gaga?

85 BPM, in 2/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Alpha Beta Gaga hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Alpha Beta Gaga?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 40.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Air drum parts

EVERY AIR CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →