Automatic · half alive

129 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 19-34 and 45-74, and 5 more places -- 68.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 162 BPM
AUTOMATIC · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 82, 106 and 114.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 114 · LANDS ON BAR 115
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 9 sections: 114 keep time, 3 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-74.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
5 groovesACGBS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Automatic?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Automatic hard to play on drums?

46 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Automatic?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 82, 106 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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