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Isolation · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove B -- Chorus
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PART C
PART F
PART I
PART L
PART C
CHORUS
PART M
PART AB
CHORUS 2
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBICFM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Isolation on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-57, toms through bars 58-65 and snare through bars 66-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 4, 9, 17, 19, 23 and 26 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, AB -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-105 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-28 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 30-53 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Isolation?

97 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 Isolation hard to play on drums?

70 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?

109 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Isolation?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 4, 9, 17, 19, 23 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED