As Alive as Always... · Am I Still Beautiful?

161 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 15 more places -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
AS ALIVE AS ALWAYS... · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 15, 17, 21 and 53 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 13 sections: 77 keep time, 59 are fills, 10 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-14.

PART B
PART I
PART J
PART M
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEIBJAS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As Alive as Always...?

150 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 As Alive as Always... hard to play on drums?

62 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 As Alive as Always...?

20 fills to learn, played 59 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 15, 17, 21 and 53 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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