Bring Me To Life · Evanescance

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-38, 50 and 64-70 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BRING ME TO LIFE · BARS 31-32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 43, 47, 49, 51, 54, 55 and 10 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 54-55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 15 sections: 54 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-20.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 3
11 groovesEGS1DB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bring Me To Life?

95 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 Bring Me To Life hard to play on drums?

58 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Bring Me To Life?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 43, 47, 49, 51, 54, 55 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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