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

EXERCISE 39 OF 42
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 139-141)
135 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come Alive (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Version) on drums

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.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-27, silence through bars 28-36, toms through bars 37-82, hi-hat through bars 83-130 and snare through bars 131-137, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    84
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-----------|
BD |------x---x-|
Come Alive (Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- I, E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 77-99 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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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