Life In General · Alternative Competition 5

176 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-20, 39-42 and 51-57, and 2 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
LIFE IN GENERAL · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 69 and 92.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 20 sections: 128 keep time, 3 are fills, 11 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 141-155.

CHORUS
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFQNVJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life In General?

110 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 General hard to play on drums?

53 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 General?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 58, 69 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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