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Its my life ez · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 1 OF 7
Groove D -- Chorus
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0 / 7 PASSED · 68 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDS3AFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Its my life ez on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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
111
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-75, silence through bars 76-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 22 more places -- 64.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Its my life ez -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-111 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Its my life ez?

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 Its my life ez 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED