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Alternative Rock Number 2 · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 18 OF 31
Run I1 · Chorus (bars 28-36)
47 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIDBLN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alternative Rock Number 2 on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 2:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-44, ride through bars 45-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-31, 33-36 and 59-64 -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
HH |------o---o---o-|--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x-xx|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
Alternative Rock Number 2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 14, 18, 22 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-32 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-59 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alternative Rock Number 2?

126 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 Alternative Rock Number 2 hard to play on drums?

53 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Alternative Rock Number 2?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 14, 18, 22 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED