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Build My Life · Pat Barrett

Build My Life · Pat Barrett
EXERCISE 23 OF 39
Groove S -- Outro
51 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Build My Life on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-12, snare through bars 13-15, hi-hat through bars 16-18 and ride through bars 19-21, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Build 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 13 times: bars 22, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- K, N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-13 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-54 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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