Life In The Fast Lane · The Eagles

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 4:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-19, 21-23 and 34-35, and 6 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 109 BPM
LIFE IN THE FAST LANE · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 44, 47, 48 and 15 more.

LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 109 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 109 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 15 sections: 81 keep time, 21 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-23.

PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART A
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJHVDA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life In The Fast Lane?

109 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 The Fast Lane hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 The Fast Lane?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 44, 47, 48 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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