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Make It Out Alive · One Ok Rock

EXERCISE 13 OF 44
Groove H -- Part H
69 / 118 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART A
PART H
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART M
PART B
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEMBNA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Make It Out Alive on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 137 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
137 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-22, toms through bars 23-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-56, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-17, 41-47 and 49-55 -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11                       12
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |----x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x---x-|
T1 |------------------------|----------x-------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Make It Out Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 18, 38, 48, 76, 98 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-19 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 22-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-71 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-87 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-111 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Make It Out Alive?

137 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Make It Out Alive hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Make It Out Alive?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 18, 38, 48, 76, 98 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED