All Around Me · Flyleaf

58 bars, 3:11, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
58
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 18 and 20, and 5 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 73 BPM
ALL AROUND ME · BAR 34
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 11, 16, 17 and 11 more.

LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 73 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

58 bars across 8 sections: 31 keep time, 17 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-10.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCFJNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is All Around Me?

73 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is All Around Me hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

58 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 All Around Me?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 11, 16, 17 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 58 BARS ANALYSED
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