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Alpha Seed · Erra

EXERCISE 30 OF 84
10-bar fill at bar 32
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0 / 84 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S7
PART J
PART S7
PART V
PART S10
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
18 groovesASS21VS10J+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alpha Seed on drums

211 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-33, snare through bars 34-46, toms through bars 47-50, snare through bars 51-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-105, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 86, 88 and 90, and 18 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-|
Alpha Seed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 75 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-16 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part S5 and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-93 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part S7 and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alpha Seed?

175 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 Seed hard to play on drums?

49 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Seed?

19 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 75 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED