"Alter Ego" · Anika nilles

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 47-49 and 56-58 -- 12.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 81 BPM
"ALTER EGO" · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 32 more.

LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 81 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 81 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

73 bars across 5 sections: 28 keep time, 38 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-32.

PART A
CHORUS
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesTAAVAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is "Alter Ego"?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 "Alter Ego" hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 "Alter Ego"?

14 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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