Art Of Life · X-Japan

764 bars, 41:27, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
764
LENGTH
41:27
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-63, 65-67 and 69-72, and 24 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 75 BPM
ART OF LIFE · BAR 62
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

48 fills to learn, played 181 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 175 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 6-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

44 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

764 bars across 35 sections: 313 keep time, 181 are fills, 13 are stops and 222 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 290-309.

CHORUS
PART BI
PART S27
16 groovesUS27BICHS+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Art Of Life?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Art Of Life hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

764 bars, about 41:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 118 exercises over 36 sittings, about 27 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 Art Of Life?

48 fills to learn, played 181 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 175 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 764 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other X-Japan drum parts

EVERY X-JAPAN CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →