Always Alright · Alabama Shakes

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 26-27, and 4 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 107 BPM
ALWAYS ALRIGHT · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 60, 66, 67 and 7 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 66-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 12 sections: 70 keep time, 13 are fills, 4 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-30.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART N
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHNJS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always Alright?

107 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 Always Alright hard to play on drums?

48 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Always Alright?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 32, 36, 56, 60, 66, 67 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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