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Downtown Alienation · Arclite

EXERCISE 6 OF 49
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Downtown Alienation on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-26, silence through bars 27-29, snare through bars 30-79, toms through bars 80-87, snare through bars 88-89 and toms through bars 90-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    39
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-----------x-----x-|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Downtown Alienation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J, Y -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-77 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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