Stayin' Alive · Bee Gees

123 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Funk / SoulPop90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-93, 96 and 98-104, and 4 more places -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 104 BPM
STAYIN' ALIVE · BAR 1
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars: 123 keep time. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-123.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stayin' Alive?

104 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 Stayin' Alive 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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