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Not Alone · All That Remains

EXERCISE 5 OF 64
Groove X -- Part X (a two-bar phrase)
40 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, OUTRO
PART L
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
9 groovesQXLHAA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Not Alone on drums

183 bars at 206 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
206 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-22, snare through bars 23-52, hi-hat through bars 53-62 and snare through bars 63-68, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-42, 45-50 and 77-82, and 3 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|--xx--xxx-x---x-|
Not Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, L -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-21 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-53 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-64 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-80 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Not Alone?

206 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 Not Alone hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 12 sittings, about 29 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 Not Alone?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 8, 20, 24, 28, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED