Life During Wartime · Talking Heads

120 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

PunkAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-87 and 89-120 -- 99.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LIFE DURING WARTIME · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 88.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars: 119 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-87.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life During Wartime?

135 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 hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Life During Wartime?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 88.

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