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Life's Not A Race · 311

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
0 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFAEWBS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life's Not A Race on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
68/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81, ride through bars 82-89, hi-hat through bars 90-97 and ride through bars 98-114, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10               11
    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-x-|
SD |----x---------x-|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
BD |x-----xxx-x-----|--x---xxx-x---x-|
Life's Not A Race -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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