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Left Outside Alone · Anastacia

Left Outside Alone · Anastacia
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Left Outside Alone on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-34, snare through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-60 and snare through bars 61-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-42, 53-68 and 77-100 -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-72 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Left Outside Alone?

100 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 Left Outside Alone hard to play on drums?

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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