Naked and alive · Milky Chance

108 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

Pop120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 52% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-18 and 21-27, and 6 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 127 BPM
NAKED AND ALIVE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

LOOP · 127 BPM
BAR 108
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 14 sections: 93 keep time, 1 is a fill and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-76.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
11 groovesBLHEF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Naked and alive?

127 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 Naked and alive 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Naked and alive?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 108.

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