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Find The Real · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 15 OF 56
Groove J
41 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART W
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLDBRWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Find The Real on drums

86 bars, 4:33, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-33, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 22-24 and 82-84 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- B, R -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 15-36 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 21-43 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Find The Real?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Find The Real hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

86 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Find The Real?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED