Hate My Life · Theory Of A Deadman

98 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43-49 and 67-73, and 1 more place -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
HATE MY LIFE · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 52, 58, 66 and 3 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

98 bars across 6 sections: 67 keep time, 9 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-33.

PART S1
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEGS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hate My Life?

130 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 Hate My Life hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hate My Life?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 52, 58, 66 and 3 more.

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