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Metalingus · Alter Bridge

EXERCISE 20 OF 59
Join Chorus 2 to Part D (bars 31-33)
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0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART D
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAAEFYD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metalingus on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
86/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-26, ride through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-28, 31-32 and 53-54, and 7 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27                               28
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------x-----|x-------------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x-----------|x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------|
SD |--------x-----g---------x-------|--------x-----g---g-----x---x-x-|
BD |x-----x---------x---x-----x-----|x-----x-------x-----x-----------|
Metalingus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 21, 26, 30 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-31 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 31-49 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metalingus?

110 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 Metalingus hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 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 Metalingus?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 21, 26, 30 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED