Decaying Life (IN) · Overdriven

391 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 18:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
391
LENGTH
18:33
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 337-360, 362-375 and 380-385 -- 12% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 84 BPM
DECAYING LIFE (IN) · BAR 338
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 74 more.

LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 31-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BARS 48-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 84 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

393 bars across 30 sections: 232 keep time, 80 are fills, 22 are stops and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 338-375.

PART B
PART V
PART BG
PART BE
PART CO
CHORUS
27 groovesCPBBEBGCO+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Decaying Life (IN)?

84 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Decaying Life (IN) hard to play on drums?

47 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

391 bars, about 18:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 107 exercises over 28 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 Decaying Life (IN)?

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 391 BARS ANALYSED
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