Im still here · John Rzeznik

156 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 111 BPM, 4:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 31-36 and 145-150 -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 111 BPM
IM STILL HERE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 28 more.

LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 45-47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BARS 62-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 111 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 15 sections: 93 keep time, 34 are fills and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-18.

PART A
PART C
BREAK 2
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
9 groovesGALCS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Im still here?

111 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Im still here hard to play on drums?

47 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Im still here?

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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