Life's Not A Race · 311

135 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Hip Hop / ReggaeAlternative / Indie120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24, 30-31 and 34-36, and 10 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 123 BPM
LIFE'S NOT A RACE · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 25, 26 and 29 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 25-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 15 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 8 sections: 86 keep time, 36 are fills, 4 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-132.

PART B
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFAEWBS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Life's Not A Race?

123 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's Not A Race hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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's Not A Race?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 25, 26 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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