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Drivin' My Life Away · Eddie Rabbitt

Drivin' My Life Away · Eddie Rabbitt
EXERCISE 7 OF 16
Fill at bar 73 and 85 (a small one)
129 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drivin' My Life Away on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-143.

The beat

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.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Drivin' My Life Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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