hopefully alone · septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou

81 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 17 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
HOPEFULLY ALONE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 48, 56 and 68.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 62 keep time, 6 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-36.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHKAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is hopefully alone?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 hopefully alone hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 hopefully alone?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 48, 56 and 68.

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