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Re-Align · Godsmack

EXERCISE 16 OF 50
Run A1 · Part A (bars 21-35)
67 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART A
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART A
PART U
7 groovesBAEPU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Re-Align on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-40, ride through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-56 and snare through bars 57-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 18 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x--x--|
Re-Align -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-45 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-77 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Re-Align?

112 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 Re-Align hard to play on drums?

62 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Re-Align?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED