Kill Each Other/Live Forever · Scars On Broadway

65 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-22, 33-40 and 53-64 -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 90 BPM
KILL EACH OTHER/LIVE FOREVER · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 14, 31, 32 and 52.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 9 sections: 46 keep time, 5 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-64.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
4 groovesGACS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kill Each Other/Live Forever?

90 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 Kill Each Other/Live Forever hard to play on drums?

56 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Kill Each Other/Live Forever?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 13, 14, 31, 32 and 52.

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