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

EXERCISE 6 OF 40
Groove K -- Part K
89 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life During Wartime (Live) (2023 Remaster) on drums

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.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-128, kick and crashes through bars 129-131, hi-hat through bars 132-192 and snare through bars 193-195.

The beat

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.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Life During Wartime (Live) (2023 Remaster) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-109 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 108-123 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 145-185 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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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