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Good Life · Onerepublic

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 15 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good Life on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:10 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
69/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 12 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x--x-rr-x---|
BD |x-x-------x--xxx|
Good Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-40 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Good Life?

95 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 Good Life hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED