Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video · Stratovarius

234 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 49 and 62, and 12 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
STRATOVARIUS 'SURVIVE' – OFFICIAL GRAPHIC VIDEO · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 42, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 25 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

234 bars across 19 sections: 169 keep time, 31 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-31.

PART G
PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
9 groovesOIGMS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video?

200 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 Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video hard to play on drums?

61 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?

234 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 42, 50, 58, 66, 67 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 234 BARS ANALYSED
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