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Alter Ego · Tame Impala

EXERCISE 15 OF 36
Groove I -- Part I
105 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART E
PART S5
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S10
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesCJEIS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alter Ego on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-33, snare through bars 34-38, silence through bars 39-45, hi-hat through bars 46-64 and ride through bars 65-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-23, 66-79 and 126-140 -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 33, 37, 65, 88, 89 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-38 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 54-90 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 124-145 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Alter Ego?

125 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 Alter Ego hard to play on drums?

60 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Alter Ego?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 33, 37, 65, 88, 89 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED