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Still Alive · Dexcore

Still Alive · Dexcore
EXERCISE 1 OF 104
Groove E -- Part E
0 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 104 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART R
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART E
PART R
PART AY
PART S16
PART BD
OUTRO
13 groovesDERBAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 28
LAND · 28
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Alive on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-19, hi-hat through bars 20-36, snare through bars 37-54, hi-hat through bars 55-61 and snare through bars 62-64, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-------x---|
Still Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 75 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 -- E, D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-49 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-61 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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