Buried Alive (AI) · Broken Torso

196 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44-46, 48-50 and 76-78, and 4 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 · 200 BPM
BURIED ALIVE (AI) · BAR 45
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 47 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 5-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 21 sections: 105 keep time, 55 are fills, 12 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-159.

PART A
PART D
PART N
PART T
PART R
PART A
CHORUS
PART AL
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART R
11 groovesMRPAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Buried Alive (AI)?

200 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 Buried Alive (AI) hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 76 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Buried Alive (AI)?

25 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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