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

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

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

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.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-28, snare through bars 29-32, silence through bars 33-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-39, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |g-ggg-ggg-gggggg|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Get Busy Living Or Get Busy Dying (Do Your Part To Save The Scene And Stop Going To Shows) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-60 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-69 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-76 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 74-95 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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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