alphabet 2 · Olipsis

112 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-7, 11 and 20-21 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 114 BPM
ALPHABET 2 · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 16 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 5 sections: 10 keep time, 22 are fills, 1 is a stop and 77 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-30.

CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
5 groovesS3S5FDSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is alphabet 2?

114 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 alphabet 2 hard to play on drums?

58 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 alphabet 2?

3 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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