life imitates life · quannnic

29 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 0:42 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
29
LENGTH
0:42
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 94% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28 -- 94.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 170 BPM
LIFE IMITATES LIFE · BAR 13
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

29 bars across 2 sections: 16 keep time, 1 is a stop and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-28.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is life imitates life?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is life imitates life hard to play on drums?

46 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

29 bars, about 0:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 29 BARS ANALYSED
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