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Fuck You Aurora · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 11 OF 69
Groove H
76 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 4
PART AF
PART F
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
6 groovesBLFAFE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fuck You Aurora on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-66, toms through bars 67-69, snare through bars 70-74 and toms through bars 75-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 34-40, and 7 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |---o--o--o--o--o--o--o--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x--------|
Fuck You Aurora -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 24, 25, 27 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-45 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fuck You Aurora?

112 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 Fuck You Aurora hard to play on drums?

60 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?

130 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 28 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 Fuck You Aurora?

19 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 24, 25, 27 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED