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Tired of Being Alone · Al Green

EXERCISE 6 OF 15
Run A1 · Chorus (bars 1-45)
51 / 67 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 45 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tired of Being Alone on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-13, and 7 more places -- 65.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Tired of Being Alone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tired of Being Alone?

98 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 Tired of Being Alone hard to play on drums?

43 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Tired of Being Alone?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED