Build My Life · Pat Barrett

79 bars, 4:13, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 34 and 55-57 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BUILD MY LIFE · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 7 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 58-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 70-71 · LANDS ON BAR 72 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 73-75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 9 sections: 39 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-21.

BREAK
PART F
CHORUS
PART N
PART S6
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKFS6NS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Build My 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 Build My Life hard to play on drums?

48 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?

79 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Build My Life?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 22, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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