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Life Is A Highway · Rascal Flatts

Life Is A Highway · Rascal Flatts
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 46 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesHWLFGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Is A Highway on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 12 and 15-16, and 19 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
Life Is A Highway -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-75 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-30 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-58 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Life Is A Highway?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Is A Highway hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Is A Highway?

10 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED