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Life Of A Salesman · Yellowcard

EXERCISE 28 OF 48
Join Chorus 2 to Break 2 (bars 58-60)
115 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART O
PART C
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART S15
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBCOS15T+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Of A Salesman on drums

147 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-10, ride through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-18, ride through bars 19-20 and silence through bars 21-22, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-12, 19 and 36-42, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    36               37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Life Of A Salesman -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 61, 74, 82 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-32 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-55 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-75 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Life Of A Salesman?

184 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 Of A Salesman hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Of A Salesman?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 35, 43, 51, 61, 74, 82 and 3 more.

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