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Keelhauled · Alestorm

EXERCISE 1 OF 77
Groove L -- Part L
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PART A
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART U
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFLAUJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keelhauled on drums

202 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-11, ride through bars 12-13, kick and crashes through bars 14-24 and ride through bars 25-40, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 67-69 and 71-72, and 10 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    67
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Keelhauled -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 48, 56, 63 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-60 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 81-121 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Keelhauled?

220 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Keelhauled hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Keelhauled?

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 48, 56, 63 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED