Always With Me, Always with you Live · Joe Satriani

414 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 9:31 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
414
LENGTH
9:31
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50, 108 and 112, and 35 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 132 BPM
ALWAYS WITH ME, ALWAYS WITH YOU LIVE · BAR 182
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 71, 91, 99, 103, 105, 106 and 56 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 91 · LANDS ON BAR 92 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 103 · LANDS ON BAR 104 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 105-107 · LANDS ON BAR 108 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

414 bars across 35 sections: 189 keep time, 62 are fills, 77 are stops and 49 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-46.

PART H
PART B
PART O
PART U
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
24 groovesADHDUO+19Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Always With Me, Always with you Live?

132 BPM, in 3/4, 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 With Me, Always with you Live hard to play on drums?

43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

414 bars, about 9:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 110 exercises over 26 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Always With Me, Always with you Live?

22 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 71, 91, 99, 103, 105, 106 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 414 BARS ANALYSED
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