This Could Be Anywhere In The World · Alexisonfire

129 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-33, 35-37 and 39-41, and 6 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 124 BPM
THIS COULD BE ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 12, 14, 20, 22 and 20 more.

LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 124 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 8 sections: 85 keep time, 26 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-37.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMAVZFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is This Could Be Anywhere In The World?

124 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 This Could Be Anywhere In The World hard to play on drums?

63 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 This Could Be Anywhere In The World?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 2, 6, 12, 14, 20, 22 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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