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Alpha Omega · Architects

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AE
PART AK
10 groovesQIAEZB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alpha Omega on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-14, snare through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27 and toms through bars 28-30, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19               20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x--x---------|----------------|
HH |----------o---o-|--o---o---o-----|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x-xxxx|
BD |xx-x--x---x---x-|--x---x---x-xxxx|
Alpha Omega -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 46 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-34 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-58 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-84 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alpha Omega?

142 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 Alpha Omega hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Alpha Omega?

14 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED