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Always Alright · Alabama Shakes

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHNJS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Always Alright on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56 and ride through bars 57-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 26-27, and 4 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 60, 66, 67 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-93 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-74 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-81 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Always Alright?

107 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 Always Alright hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Always Alright?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 60, 66, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED