Alumina · Nightmare

243 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
243
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 114-128, 130-144 and 146-158, and 2 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
ALUMINA · BAR 115
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 57, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76 and 3 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 71-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 243
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

243 bars across 21 sections: 193 keep time, 9 are fills, 3 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-183.

PART M
PART AC
PART M
CHORUS
PART AU
OUTRO
16 groovesAKMAAAUAC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alumina?

185 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 Alumina 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

243 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 Alumina?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 57, 71, 72, 73, 75, 76 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 243 BARS ANALYSED
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