Alive And Well · Rise Against

102 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 25-29 and 47-51, and 3 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ALIVE AND WELL · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 36, 45, 65 and 2 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 9 sections: 80 keep time, 8 are fills, 7 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-32.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGDOMB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alive And Well?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Alive And Well hard to play on drums?

69 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?

102 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 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 Alive And Well?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 36, 45, 65 and 2 more.

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