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Life Burns · Apocalyptica

EXERCISE 20 OF 33
Groove I -- Part I
59 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART C
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEACIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Burns on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, ride through bars 16-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26 and snare through bars 27-33, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-21, 36-38 and 40-41, and 4 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Life Burns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 11, 22, 33, 39, 42 and 5 more.

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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-39 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Life Burns?

98 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 Life Burns hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Life Burns?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 11, 22, 33, 39, 42 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED