Dead is Alive · Distortion

191 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:47
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-45, 47 and 49, and 9 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
DEAD IS ALIVE · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 36, 52, 60, 100, 108 and 2 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 148 · LANDS ON BAR 149

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 19 sections: 128 keep time, 8 are fills, 1 is a stop and 29 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
10 groovesFCS17KA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dead is Alive?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dead is Alive hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dead is Alive?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 35, 36, 52, 60, 100, 108 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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