Come Alive (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Version) · Foo Fighters

149 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 135 BPM, 3:19 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-89, 91-97 and 99-101, and 10 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
COME ALIVE (ECHOES, SILENCE, PATIENCE & GRACE VERSION) · BAR 84
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 90, 98, 106, 110, 114, 122 and 6 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 9 sections: 62 keep time, 12 are fills, 54 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-25.

PART B
PART S3
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIBEGS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Come Alive (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Version)?

135 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Come Alive (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Version) hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Come Alive (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Version)?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 90, 98, 106, 110, 114, 122 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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