Find The Real · Alter Bridge

86 bars, 4:33, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 22-24 and 82-84 -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
FIND THE REAL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 9-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 38 keep time, 37 are fills and 1 is a stop.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART R
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLDBRWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Find The Real?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Find The Real hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 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 Find The Real?

15 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 31 more.

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