Maybe I'll Catch Fire · Alkaline Trio

107 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 25-31 and 33, and 7 more places -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
MAYBE I'LL CATCH FIRE · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 40, 62, 64, 66, 72 and 7 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

107 bars across 9 sections: 71 keep time, 13 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesAPCLH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Maybe I'll Catch Fire?

145 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 Maybe I'll Catch Fire hard to play on drums?

52 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Maybe I'll Catch Fire?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 40, 62, 64, 66, 72 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED
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