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Life · Our Lady Peace

EXERCISE 13 OF 32
2-bar fill at bar 50
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0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEIOJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 4:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
36/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-29, kick and crashes through bars 30-33 and toms through bars 34-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 6 more places -- 31.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |--x---xxx-------|
FT |---------xx---x-|
BD |x-x-----------x-|
Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 50, 51, 63, 68, 69 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 52-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Life?

86 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 hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 41, 50, 51, 63, 68, 69 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED