← SONGS

I Alone · Live

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFCJBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Alone on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 2-50, ride through bars 51-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
I 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 38, 54, 58, 62, 74 and 78.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is I Alone?

97 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 I Alone hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 I Alone?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 38, 54, 58, 62, 74 and 78.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED