Alive · Pearl Jam

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-82 and 84-91 -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 76 BPM
ALIVE · BAR 58
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21 and 16 more.

LOOP · 76 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 19-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 76 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time, 22 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-91.

PART D
PART G
PART L
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesYLGQD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Alive?

76 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 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 10, 11, 19, 20, 21 and 16 more.

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