Drivin' My Life Away · Eddie Rabbitt

143 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Country / Folk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 92% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-58, 60-66 and 68-72, and 5 more places -- 92% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
DRIVIN' MY LIFE AWAY · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 59, 67, 73, 80, 81, 85 and 4 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 2 sections: 128 keep time, 10 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-58.

OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drivin' My Life Away?

168 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Drivin' My Life Away hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Drivin' My Life Away?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 59, 67, 73, 80, 81, 85 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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