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Alive and kicking V3 · Simple Minds

EXERCISE 18 OF 30
Groove L
119 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
VERSE
VERSE 2
CHORUS
BREAK 2
VERSE 3
VERSE 4
OUTRO
VERSE 5
5 groovesCIAS6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alive and kicking V3 on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, snare through bars 43-44, hi-hat through bars 45-69, ride through bars 70-72, hi-hat through bars 73-84 and silence through bars 85-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 45-59 and 61-64, and 7 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x--x--|
Alive and kicking V3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 43, 44, 60, 68, 69 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-45 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Verse 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse 2 and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 83-136 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Alive and kicking V3?

104 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 Alive and kicking V3 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Alive and kicking V3?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 43, 44, 60, 68, 69 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED