Take Lots With Alcohol · Alkaline Trio

97 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 125 BPM
TAKE LOTS WITH ALCOHOL · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 20, 21 and 7 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 7 sections: 74 keep time, 13 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-81.

PART E
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesHELFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Lots With Alcohol?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Take Lots With Alcohol hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Take Lots With Alcohol?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 5, 20, 21 and 7 more.

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