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Alpha Beta Gaga · Air

EXERCISE 3 OF 15
Groove A -- Part A
55 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alpha Beta Gaga on drums

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.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
2/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12 and ride through bars 13-68.

The beat

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.

    13
    1.......2.......
RD |x---x---x---x---|
HH |--------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x-------x---|
HF |x---x-------x---|
Alpha Beta Gaga -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-41 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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