I Feel Alive · Jack Black

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
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 41, 43 and 45, and 21 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
I FEEL ALIVE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 38, 39 and 34 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 38-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 13 sections: 73 keep time, 40 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-19.

PART A
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART V
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
9 groovesNJAGV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Feel Alive?

120 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 I Feel Alive 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Feel Alive?

12 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 38, 39 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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