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Alright Now · Free

EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAKHGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alright Now on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, snare through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-95, snare through bars 96-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-23, 25-32 and 34-52, and 9 more places -- 63.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 53, 96, 97, 99 and 123.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 24-103 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 82-98 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-112 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 100-124 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alright Now?

120 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 Alright Now hard to play on drums?

50 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 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 Alright Now?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 53, 96, 97, 99 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED