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What A Time To Be Alive · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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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
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What A Time To Be Alive on drums

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

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-86, silence through bars 87-92, hi-hat through bars 93-116 and snare through bars 117-125.

The beat

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.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
What A Time To Be Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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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