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Feel Alive · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 11 OF 59
Groove F -- Outro
58 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEJGAIS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feel Alive on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 41-43, and 9 more places -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|
Feel Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-85 -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Feel Alive?

146 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Feel Alive hard to play on drums?

64 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Feel Alive?

14 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 27, 28, 30 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED