Life Itself · Glass Animals

123 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8-10 and 16-33, and 7 more places -- 40.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 112 BPM
LIFE ITSELF · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 9 sections: 110 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-39.

CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART B
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDCBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life Itself?

112 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 Itself hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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.

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