Still Alive · Dexcore

188 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 30 and 41-43, and 11 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
STILL ALIVE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 20, 28, 32 and 54 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

188 bars across 19 sections: 83 keep time, 60 are fills, 23 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-11.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART E
PART R
PART AY
PART BD
OUTRO
13 groovesDERBAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Still Alive?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Still Alive hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Still Alive?

28 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 12, 16, 18, 20, 28, 32 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED
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