Fully Alive · Flyleaf

95 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 55% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 26 more places -- 54.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 151 BPM
FULLY ALIVE · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 77.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 4 sections: 57 keep time, 2 are fills, 30 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-76.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fully Alive?

151 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 Fully Alive hard to play on drums?

42 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fully Alive?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 24 and 77.

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