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A Design For Life · Manic Street Preachers

A Design For Life · Manic Street Preachers
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesAS6HGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Design For Life on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-37, hi-hat through bars 38-47, ride through bars 48-63 and silence through bars 64-94.

The beat

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.

    1                        2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |------x-----------x--g--|------x-----------x--gx-|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|x---x-----x-x---x-------|
A Design For Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-64 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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