Alpha · Periphery

201 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-41, 43-45 and 77-79, and 10 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ALPHA · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 13, 24, 32, 35, 38, 46 and 27 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

201 bars across 22 sections: 106 keep time, 33 are fills, 9 are stops and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-83.

CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART AC
PART AG
PART AW
OUTRO 2
16 groovesIACTEH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alpha?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Alpha hard to play on drums?

52 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Alpha?

22 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 13, 24, 32, 35, 38, 46 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED
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