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Life of Exile · Intent of Shadow

Life of Exile · Intent of Shadow
EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove J -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART V
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJHBUS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life of Exile on drums

161 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40, snare through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 73-79 and 81-82, and 4 more places -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Life of Exile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 80 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 52-73 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Life of Exile?

150 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 of Exile hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 of Exile?

11 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 64, 72, 80 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED