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Everything Is Alright · Motion City Soundtrack

EXERCISE 19 OF 51
Run G1 · Part G (bars 20-28)
97 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKEFAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything Is Alright on drums

131 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-27, hi-hat through bars 28-36, snare through bars 37-44, hi-hat through bars 45-60 and snare through bars 61-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 38, and 9 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    93
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Everything Is Alright -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 22, 24, 26, 36, 52 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-71 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 75-93 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Everything Is Alright?

163 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 Everything Is Alright hard to play on drums?

61 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Everything Is Alright?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 22, 24, 26, 36, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED