A Design For Life · Manic Street Preachers

94 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 4:15 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieElectronic120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9, 11-19 and 38-46 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
A DESIGN FOR LIFE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 20, 21, 22, 26, 30 and 7 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BARS 20-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 6 sections: 43 keep time, 13 are fills and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS6HGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Design For Life?

132 BPM, in 6/4, 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 A Design For Life hard to play on drums?

50 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?

94 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 A Design For Life?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 10, 20, 21, 22, 26, 30 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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