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Alive · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove Y -- Outro 2
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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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Alive on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-29, ride through bars 30-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-43, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- Y, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-25 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-45 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-48 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED