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Life In The Fast Lane · The Eagles

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove H -- Part H
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life In The Fast Lane on drums

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.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-29, snare through bars 30-32, hi-hat through bars 33-53 and snare through bars 54-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Life In The Fast Lane -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-33 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-61 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-107 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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