Alive · Blaze

112 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 220 BPM, 4:03 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 30-35 and 50-55 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
ALIVE · BARS 30-31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 20 and 40.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 6 sections: 20 keep time, 3 are fills, 23 are stops and 60 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6BIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alive?

220 BPM, in 8/4, 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 hard to play on drums?

29 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 7 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 12, 20 and 40.

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