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Another Life · Motionless In White

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCS1PHS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Another Life on drums

131 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

53 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
53/100

silence through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-41, hi-hat through bars 42-56, silence through bars 57-58, hi-hat through bars 59-64 and snare through bars 65-90, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 33-35, and 12 more places -- 23.8% 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---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Another Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 40, 42, 50 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-57 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Another Life?

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 hard to play on drums?

53 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 29 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 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Another Life?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 40, 42, 50 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED