'97 · Alkaline Trio

155 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 108 BPM, 4:18 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 35, and 17 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 108 BPM
'97 · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 50 more.

LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 108 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 16 sections: 71 keep time, 56 are fills, 3 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-119.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART X
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART AO
PART AS
OUTRO
13 groovesPACGXAS+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is '97?

108 BPM, in 3/4, 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 '97 hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 24 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in '97?

23 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 22, 24 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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