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Another life (Full Band) · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Groove L
74 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART F
PART J
PART N
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCNS1FJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another life (Full Band) on drums

131 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-26, ride through bars 27-28, snare through bars 29-30, ride through bars 31-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-56, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 33, and 17 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Another life (Full Band) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 40, 41, 42 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-66 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-45 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part N and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Another life (Full Band)?

162 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Another life (Full Band) 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Another life (Full Band)?

8 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 40, 41, 42 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED