I Will Live Again · Arch Enemy

107 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 20.2% 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 WILL LIVE AGAIN · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 57, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 7 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 68-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 15 sections: 66 keep time, 13 are fills, 1 is a stop and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-15.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART H
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCHFQAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will Live Again?

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 Will Live Again hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 I Will Live Again?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 34, 57, 68, 69, 70, 71 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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