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18 And Life · Skid Row

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove M -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMCGKV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 18 And Life on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
46/100

ride through bars 3-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, ride through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44 and ride through bars 45-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
18 And Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- M, G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-29 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-55 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-59 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 18 And Life?

91 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 18 And Life hard to play on drums?

46 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in 18 And Life?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 19, 20 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED