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How Can I Live · Ill Niño

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove C -- Part C
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PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCDGK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Can I Live on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-52, hi-hat through bars 53-56 and snare through bars 57-82.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-20 and 29-32, and 2 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |xx-x-x--x-xx--x-|
How Can I Live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-21 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is How Can I Live?

105 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 How Can I Live hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 How Can I Live?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 28, 36, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED