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Life To Lifeless · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 31 OF 44
Join Part N to Part P (bars 43-45)
60 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART P
CHORUS
PART F
PART D
PART N
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesAS8IDF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life To Lifeless on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
38/100

snare through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, snare through bars 23-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-74 and silence through bars 75-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12 -- 16.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
SD |xx--xx----xxxxxxxx--|
HF |--------x-----------|
Life To Lifeless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 30, 32, 34 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A, N -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-26 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-45 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Life To Lifeless?

122 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 To Lifeless hard to play on drums?

38 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?

88 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Life To Lifeless?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 30, 32, 34 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED