SHINEDOWN · DRUM BEAT

The drum beat in Her Name Is Alice

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The beat, written out

LOOP · 95 BPM
HER NAME IS ALICE · BAR 23

It is played on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, counted in sixteenth notes. On its own it scores 33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- and the thing that decides that is the independence between the hands and the feet.

The whole song is 47 out of 100, so the beat is not the hard part: what costs you is everything around it, the joins and the fills.

How to get it under your hands

The room opens this beat on its simplest reduction, at 71 BPM, and adds the notes back a rung at a time -- 3 of them. Nothing is a matter of opinion: each rung has a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next one.

  1. Kick and snare, whole. The feet and the snare exactly as written, hi-hat pulled back to quarter notes. This is the part to know by heart.
  2. Every note, flat. All the notes, but the hi-hat stays closed and nothing is ghosted or accented.
  3. As written. Open hi-hat, ghost notes, accents and the crash where they belong.

Tempo goes 71, 83 and 95 BPM, and the gate at each one is 8 loops in a row with no wrong note and no wobble in the time.

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Questions

What drum beat does Her Name Is Alice use?

A one-bar groove on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick, in 4/4 at 95 BPM, counted in sixteenth notes. It is written out above, and it covers 37.7% of the bars the kit plays.

Where does the beat come in?

Bars 23-25, 27-29, 45-47 and 49-51, and 6 more places. The time is kept on the silence to start with, and it changes 1 time over the song.

Is the beat in Her Name Is Alice hard?

33 out of 100 on its own -- a fair first song. The song as a whole is 47 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED