Afterlife · Evanescence

112 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 26 and 54, and 6 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
AFTERLIFE · BAR 91
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 43, 56, 58, 59 and 14 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 58-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 18 sections: 55 keep time, 20 are fills, 13 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-19.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART AB
13 groovesIEKS1AB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Afterlife?

130 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 Afterlife hard to play on drums?

42 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 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 Afterlife?

12 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 24, 28, 43, 56, 58, 59 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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