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EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART S6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS1CAS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Alive on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-23, hi-hat through bars 24-54, silence through bars 55-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-87.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-42, 48 and 50-53, and 3 more places -- 66.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Still Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 49, 75 and 87.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Bars 41-48 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Alive?

120 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 Still Alive hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Still Alive?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 49, 75 and 87.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED