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I Lived · OneRepublic

EXERCISE 30 OF 30
Play the whole song with the record
96 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 114 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
PART B
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK 2
VERSE
BREAK 3
BREAK 4
PART I
BREAK 5
VERSE 2
BREAK 6
VERSE 3
BREAK 7
VERSE 4
OUTRO
14 groovesGS1DIB+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Lived on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-18, hi-hat through bars 19-47, silence through bars 48-50, hi-hat through bars 51-77 and silence through bars 78-80, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-47, 65-77 and 81-88, and 1 more place -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    35               36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |-xxxx-xxxxxxx-xx|xxxx--xxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----g-------x---|----g-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-g-|
I Lived -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 51, 52, 64 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-53 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Break 4 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-110 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse 4 and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is I Lived?

123 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 I Lived hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Lived?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 34, 51, 52, 64 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED