Life Is Killing Me · Type O Negative

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 7:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
7:41
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 46-52 and 54-60, and 1 more place -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 80 BPM
LIFE IS KILLING ME · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 37, 61, 80, 81 and 8 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 14 sections: 116 keep time, 14 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-60.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART T
PART R
PART T
PART R
PART G
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJCRMT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life Is Killing Me?

80 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 Killing Me hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 7:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Killing Me?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 9, 37, 61, 80, 81 and 8 more.

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