Drum Related

This week I’ve chosen Alright Now by Free. A classic track I’m sure you’ll agree (If you’re old enough to have heard it!). The reason I’m breaking this track down this week is because I have to play it next week, and the last time I played it I hadn’t heard it for about 10 years and I played it from what I could remember of the track in a live performance (not the best way to go about things!) Needless to say I messed part of it up! I didn’t kick back in at the right time after the LOOONG guitar solo! So, my advice to you is, in that LOOONG and kinda odd bar numbered guitar solo, until you’re massively familiar with the track, COUNT!! This is the best way to ensure you’re gonna come back in, in the right place. To be fair, 37 bars is a really odd one to feel, so counting is probably best no matter how well you know the track.

Section      No. of Bars

Intro           8

1st Verse   16 (whole bar build (in 16ths) on snare in 16th bar.)

Chorus       9

Bridge        4

2nd Verse   16 (whole bar build (in 16ths) on snare in 16th bar.)

Chorus         9 (Bass only on ¼ notes through 8th bar. Rest for 9th bar.)

Inst. (guitar solo) 37 (on 22nd bar snare plays on the ¼ notes. Start building using 16ths on snare in 34th bar. Continue through 35th. STOP and just play ¼’s on bass & hi hat through 36th and play a fill that has the pattern “1e  a2   a3  +  4” on the 37th!!) 

Chorus        8

Chorus        8

Chorus       8