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I Stand Alone · Godsmack

EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove N -- Chorus
16 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNDBAGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Stand Alone on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28 and ride through bars 29-32, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x-xx--x-x---x|
I Stand Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-69 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-40 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-74 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Stand Alone?

85 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 Stand Alone hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 I Stand Alone?

8 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED