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Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video · Stratovarius

EXERCISE 16 OF 84
Groove H
119 / 234 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART M
9 groovesOIGMS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
234
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, ride through bars 51-56, snare through bars 57-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-69, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Stratovarius 'Survive' – Official Graphic Video -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-9 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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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