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alphabet 2 · Olipsis

alphabet 2 · Olipsis
EXERCISE 10 OF 15
5-bar fill at bar 21
21 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
5 groovesS3S5FDSFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play alphabet 2 on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-19, snare through bars 20-30, silence through bars 31-71, kick and crashes through bars 72-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    6                           7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+ 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x--|-x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
SD |------------x--------------|-x---------------x---------|
BD |xxx--xxx-x----xx-xxx-x-xx-x|x--x-xxxx--x-xx-xxxx-x-xx-x|
alphabet 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-76 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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