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I Just Wanna Live · Good Charlotte

EXERCISE 13 OF 13
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Just Wanna Live on drums

143 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, ride through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-50 and kick and crashes through bars 51-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-30 and 49-50, and 4 more places -- 49.6% 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-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
I Just Wanna Live -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 108 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 32 minutes.
  2. Bars 31-121 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is I Just Wanna Live?

220 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 Just Wanna Live hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Just Wanna Live?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 108 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED