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Buried Alive (AI) · Broken Torso

Buried Alive (AI) · Broken Torso
EXERCISE 6 OF 102
Groove A -- Part A
64 / 196 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO
PART A
PART D
PART A
PART N
PART T
PART R
PART A
CHORUS
PART AL
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
11 groovesMRPAN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 12
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Buried Alive (AI) on drums

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.

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
84/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-59, snare through bars 60-67, hi-hat through bars 68-91 and kick and crashes through bars 92-95, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Buried Alive (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 76 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 3-42 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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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