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Drink · Alestorm

EXERCISE 29 OF 35
Fill at bar 100 (a small one)
123 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
4 groovesDAHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drink on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
63/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-10, toms through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-35 and snare through bars 36-68, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Drink -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-34 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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