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Life Is Killing Me · Type O Negative

EXERCISE 9 OF 52
Groove F
78 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Is Killing Me on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
7:41
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-29, snare through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-53 and snare through bars 54-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- J, M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-29 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-86 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED