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Life In General · Alternative Competition 5

EXERCISE 25 OF 51
Groove L -- Part L
118 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
CHORUS
PART L
PART L
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFQNVJ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life In General on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-42, snare through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-76, snare through bars 77-84, hi-hat through bars 85-116 and silence through bars 117-124, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|----x-----------|
HH |----o-------o---|------------o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
HF |x-x---x-x-x---x-|x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Life In General -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- F, N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-39 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-54 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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