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

EXERCISE 22 OF 46
Join Chorus 2 to Part D (bars 80-82)
132 / 166 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART D
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How to Enjoy Life? (Album Version) on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
5:31
DIFFICULTY
44/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-98, silence through bars 99-100, hi-hat through bars 101-163 and snare through bars 164-166.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
How to Enjoy Life? (Album Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- B, D -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-70 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 78-103 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 101-122 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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