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The Metro · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 6 OF 16
Groove B
60 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesCEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Metro on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100

ride through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8 and hi-hat through bars 9-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7 and 17, and 15 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
The Metro -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 36, 73 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-20 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Metro?

87 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 The Metro hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Metro?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 36, 73 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED