Life During Wartime (Live) (2023 Remaster) · Talking Heads

195 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 28 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
LIFE DURING WARTIME (LIVE) (2023 REMASTER) · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 40, 48, 64, 72 and 10 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

195 bars across 11 sections: 160 keep time, 16 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 154-181.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDKMS1E+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life During Wartime (Live) (2023 Remaster)?

130 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 During Wartime (Live) (2023 Remaster) hard to play on drums?

53 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Life During Wartime (Live) (2023 Remaster)?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 40, 48, 64, 72 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
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