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Alive · Blaze

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
45 / 112 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesS6BIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alive on drums

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.

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
29/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, toms through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48, toms through bars 49-56 and silence through bars 57-112.

The beat

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.

    30                               31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a7e+a8e+a
SD |--------x-----------------------|x---x---x---x-x-----------------|
T1 |--------------------x-x-----x-x-|------------------------x-x-x-x-|
T2 |----------------x-x-----x-x-----|----------------x-x-x-x---------|
BD |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- I, B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 28-57 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED