How to Enjoy Life? (Album Version) · Blade and Bath

166 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-32, 66-80 and 102, and 6 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOW TO ENJOY LIFE? (ALBUM VERSION) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 49, 65, 97, 109, 117 and 3 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 117 · LANDS ON BAR 118

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 13 sections: 125 keep time, 10 are fills, 16 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-96.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBHDNL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is How to Enjoy Life? (Album Version)?

120 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 to Enjoy Life? (Album Version) hard to play on drums?

44 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 5:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in How to Enjoy Life? (Album Version)?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 33, 49, 65, 97, 109, 117 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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