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I Can't Live With You · Queen

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 85 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART P
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFJDPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Can't Live With You on drums

202 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 1-142, toms through bars 143-150 and hi-hat through bars 151-202.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 20-23, and 38 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
T1 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------------x-|
I Can't Live With You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 56 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F, J -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 93-111 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 114-135 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Can't Live With You?

184 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Can't Live With You hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 I Can't Live With You?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 56 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED