The Metro · Alkaline Trio

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Alternative / IndiePunkUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7 and 17, and 15 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 87 BPM
THE METRO · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 36, 73 and 81.

LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 87 BPM
BAR 81
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 7 sections: 68 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-64.

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

Questions

What BPM is The Metro?

87 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 The Metro hard to play on drums?

64 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Metro?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 36, 73 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED
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