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

As Alive as Always... · Am I Still Beautiful?
EXERCISE 8 OF 79
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 79 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As Alive as Always... on drums

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.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 1-48, toms through bars 49-57, snare through bars 58-81, hi-hat through bars 82-83, toms through bars 84-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-93, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
As Alive as Always... -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- E, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-27 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-76 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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