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Hate My Life · Theory Of A Deadman

EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Groove C -- Part C
53 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART S1
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEGS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hate My Life on drums

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

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-18, hi-hat through bars 19-96 and toms through bars 97-98.

The beat

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.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Hate My Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED