Drink · Alestorm

132 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 13 more places -- 48.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DRINK · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 20, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 7 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 7 sections: 106 keep time, 13 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-115.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesDAHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drink?

160 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 Drink hard to play on drums?

63 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?

132 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Drink?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 11, 20, 36, 44, 52, 60 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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