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Continental · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 8 OF 57
Groove C
49 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART AC
PART B
PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART V
PART N
PART AC
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesANVACS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Continental on drums

132 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, silence through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-44 and ride through bars 45-46, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 9 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 24, 39, 40, 43, 44, 48 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-41 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Continental?

164 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 Continental hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Continental?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 24, 39, 40, 43, 44, 48 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED