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All My Life · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 14 OF 31
Run H1 · Chorus (bars 9-20)
52 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART K
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHKNS1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All My Life on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34 and snare through bars 35-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x----x--x---|
BD |x--------xx-----|x--x---x---x-x-x|
All My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-28 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 28-47 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is All My Life?

92 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 All My Life hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in All My Life?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 16 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED