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Automatic · half alive

Automatic · half alive
EXERCISE 10 OF 22
Groove D
102 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesACGBS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Automatic on drums

129 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-43, hi-hat through bars 44-90, snare through bars 91-106 and hi-hat through bars 107-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 19-34 and 45-74, and 5 more places -- 68.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 82, 106 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 11-43 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 88-129 -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Automatic?

162 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 Automatic hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Automatic?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 82, 106 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED