Everything Is Alright · Motion City Soundtrack

131 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 18 and 38, and 9 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
EVERYTHING IS ALRIGHT · BAR 93
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 22, 24, 26, 36, 52 and 11 more.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 9 sections: 77 keep time, 17 are fills, 22 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-108.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKEFAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everything Is Alright?

163 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 Everything Is Alright hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Everything Is Alright?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 22, 24, 26, 36, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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