Im Still Standing Ver 2 · Elton John

137 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

RockJazz / Blues150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-18 and 21-23, and 13 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 172 BPM
IM STILL STANDING VER 2 · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 29, 63 and 97.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 5 are fills and 16 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-62.

PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesEBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Im Still Standing Ver 2?

172 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Im Still Standing Ver 2 hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Im Still Standing Ver 2?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 29, 63 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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