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Life Is Short, O Brave Girl · Hanabie

EXERCISE 16 OF 95
Fill at bar 22 (a small one)
78 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AV
14 groovesXACEAVA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Is Short, O Brave Girl on drums

172 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:38 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-44 and toms through bars 45-46, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-61, 87-93 and 115-121, and 1 more place -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    55
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Life Is Short, O Brave Girl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 34 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AC, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Life Is Short, O Brave Girl?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Life Is Short, O Brave Girl hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

172 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. 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 Short, O Brave Girl?

24 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 10, 12, 20, 22, 24, 34 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED