What A Time To Be Alive · Fall Out Boy

125 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 24 and 32-38, and 8 more places -- 53.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 31, 39, 47 and 10 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 7 sections: 65 keep time, 16 are fills, 34 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-23.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is What A Time To Be Alive?

138 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 What A Time To Be Alive hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in What A Time To Be Alive?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 31, 39, 47 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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