Life Goes On · Poison

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-27 and 41-43, and 7 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 82 BPM
LIFE GOES ON · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 16, 35, 51, 52 and 7 more.

LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 82 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 10 sections: 57 keep time, 13 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART B
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life Goes On?

82 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 Goes On 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Life Goes On?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 16, 35, 51, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED
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