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Life in an Elevator · Jeremy Godfrey, Ian Vish

Life in an Elevator · Jeremy Godfrey, Ian Vish
EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Groove C
83 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBAIPS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life in an Elevator on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-94, ride through bars 95-96, silence through bars 97-98, hi-hat through bars 99-126 and kick and crashes through bars 127-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-8, 49-71 and 73-78, and 4 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    49               50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----r-----r---r-|--r---r---r-r---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x-x-----x-|
Life in an Elevator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- B, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 84-127 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Life in an Elevator?

150 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 in an Elevator hard to play on drums?

57 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 in an Elevator?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 88 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED