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Desperado (Metal Version) · Alice Cooper

EXERCISE 9 OF 12
Groove G
89 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS5FS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desperado (Metal Version) on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-97 and kick and crashes through bars 98-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-28, 30-32 and 34-52, and 3 more places -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------xxxxxx------|
Desperado (Metal Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-89 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Desperado (Metal Version)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Desperado (Metal Version) hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Desperado (Metal Version)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED