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"Alter Ego" · Anika nilles

"Alter Ego" · Anika nilles
EXERCISE 28 OF 45
Fill at bar 42 (a small one)
46 / 73 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART AE
PART A
CHORUS
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesTAAVAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Alter Ego" on drums

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.

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
83/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, toms through bars 24-28, hi-hat through bars 29-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-45 and toms through bars 46-51, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
T1 |--------------x-----------------|
T2 |------------------x-----------xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
"Alter Ego" -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AE -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part AE and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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