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hopefully alone · septemberistheonlytimeidontthinkofyou

EXERCISE 10 OF 28
Groove E
48 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHKAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play hopefully alone on drums

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.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-24, snare through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-56, snare through bars 57-72 and ride through bars 73-81.

The beat

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.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
hopefully alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 9-41 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 48-72 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED