Awake And Alive · Skillet

139 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-20, 22-29 and 54-60, and 1 more place -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
AWAKE AND ALIVE · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 33, 37, 41, 73, 77 and 15 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars across 10 sections: 60 keep time, 21 are fills, 49 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-28.

PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHEDCT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Awake And Alive?

160 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 Awake And Alive hard to play on drums?

50 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?

139 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 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 Awake And Alive?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 4, 33, 37, 41, 73, 77 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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