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ALUCARDA · INOHA

EXERCISE 31 OF 57
Fill at bar 90, 148 and 154 (a small one)
109 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AA, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBLAGAAJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ALUCARDA on drums

155 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-81, ride through bars 82-93 and hi-hat through bars 94-155.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7-9, and 32 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
ALUCARDA -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 12, 16, 36, 42, 48 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- B, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-79 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-95 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is ALUCARDA?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is ALUCARDA hard to play on drums?

52 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?

155 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 ALUCARDA?

13 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 6, 12, 16, 36, 42, 48 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED