I Stand Alone · Godsmack

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-14 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
I STAND ALONE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 35 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BARS 18-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 10 sections: 27 keep time, 41 are fills, 2 are stops and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesNDBAGS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Stand Alone?

85 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 Stand Alone hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Stand Alone?

8 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 18, 19, 20 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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