I Will Survive · Cake

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17-23, and 5 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
I WILL SURVIVE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 54, 56 and 21 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 12 sections: 74 keep time, 27 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-23.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesCOKGAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Will Survive?

95 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 Survive hard to play on drums?

58 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Will Survive?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 54, 56 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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