Downtown Alienation · Arclite

160 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-46, 51-57 and 68-75, and 1 more place -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
DOWNTOWN ALIENATION · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 80, 81, 82, 83 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 80-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 156 · LANDS ON BAR 157
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 18 sections: 117 keep time, 15 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-112.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART L
PART J
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART Y
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFJYAI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Downtown Alienation?

140 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 Downtown Alienation 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Downtown Alienation?

3 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 17, 18, 80, 81, 82, 83 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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