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Life Goes On · Poison

EXERCISE 38 OF 40
Play the whole song with the record
84 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 86 BARS LIT
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
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Goes On on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-16, ride through bars 17-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and ride through bars 36-47, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- I, B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-20 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-52 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-74 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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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