First Day Of My Life · The Rasmus

97 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndiePop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34 and 57-63, and 5 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 25, 33, 47 and 5 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 11 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-19.

PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART A
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesIADEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is First Day Of My Life?

110 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 First Day Of My Life hard to play on drums?

54 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 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 First Day Of My Life?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 8, 24, 25, 33, 47 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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