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Whatever Alright · Vianova

EXERCISE 14 OF 40
Groove M -- Part M
45 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART H
PART I
PART M
PART S
PART T
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesYIDTH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whatever Alright on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-9, kick and crashes through bars 10-20, hi-hat through bars 21-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-34, 86-88 and 90-92 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Whatever Alright -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 77, 78, 79, 80, 85 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- J, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-49 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 47-60 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Whatever Alright?

104 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Whatever Alright hard to play on drums?

58 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Whatever Alright?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 48, 77, 78, 79, 80, 85 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED