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Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4") · Pharrell Williams

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
BREAK 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBAS11DS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4") on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:10 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-73, silence through bars 74-87 and hi-hat through bars 88-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-20, 25-27 and 30-36, and 3 more places -- 66.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|--x---x-x-------|
Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4") -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-57 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4")?

120 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 Double Life (From "Despicable Me 4") hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED