Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) · Fall Out Boy

95 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 29-31 and 40-47 -- 22.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 126 BPM
GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING (DO YOUR PART TO SAVE THE SCENE AND STOP GOING TO SHOWS) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 28, 49, 59, 75, 79 and 2 more.

LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 126 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 9 are fills, 5 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-47.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART H
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBDMIS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows)?

126 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 Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 28, 49, 59, 75, 79 and 2 more.

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