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R O U N D 6 Cure | Alien Stage · ALNST

EXERCISE 1 OF 31
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 31 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFHLS6D+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play R O U N D 6 Cure | Alien Stage on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
41/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-34, silence through bars 35-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-21, 24 and 49-54, and 5 more places -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
R O U N D 6 Cure | Alien Stage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 26, 28, 30, 60, 62 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-69 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is R O U N D 6 Cure | Alien Stage?

92 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 R O U N D 6 Cure | Alien Stage hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 R O U N D 6 Cure | Alien Stage?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 26, 28, 30, 60, 62 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED