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Maybe I'll Catch Fire · Alkaline Trio

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove A -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maybe I'll Catch Fire on drums

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.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
52/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

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.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Maybe I'll Catch Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-103 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-76 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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