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Alive And Well · Rise Against

EXERCISE 25 OF 31
Fill at bar 81 (a small one)
87 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alive And Well on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
69/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, ride through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-30 and toms through bars 31-36, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Alive And Well -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-72 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED