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From Life... To Lifeless · Mauled

EXERCISE 5 OF 28
Groove S -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART S5
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBXSRO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play From Life... To Lifeless on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:49 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-67, kick and crashes through bars 68-73 and snare through bars 74-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-22 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8                                                9
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x-----------------------------x--x--x-----|x-----------------------x--x--x-----x--x--x-----|
From Life... To Lifeless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 35.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-37 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-45 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-68 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is From Life... To Lifeless?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 From Life... To Lifeless hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in From Life... To Lifeless?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 33 and 35.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED