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P.A.R.T.Y. · Alestorm

EXERCISE 10 OF 39
Groove F -- Part F
81 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART E, PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART E
PART F
PART M
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAIDMF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play P.A.R.T.Y. on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
56/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-66, ride through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-23 and 25-30, and 8 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
P.A.R.T.Y. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 32, 33, 37, 40, 50 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-55 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-57 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-82 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is P.A.R.T.Y.?

143 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 P.A.R.T.Y. hard to play on drums?

56 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 P.A.R.T.Y.?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 7, 32, 33, 37, 40, 50 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED