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Left Outside Alone (Radio Edit) · Anastacia

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEFS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Left Outside Alone (Radio Edit) on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:32 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-67, kick and crashes through bars 68-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-92.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24, 26-28 and 33-36, and 3 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x-----|
Left Outside Alone (Radio Edit) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 41, 51, 59, 67, 83 and 1 more.

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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-40 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-67 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 66-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Left Outside Alone (Radio Edit)?

104 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 (Radio Edit) 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Left Outside Alone (Radio Edit)?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 41, 51, 59, 67, 83 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED