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Lifeline · Papa Roach

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove F -- Outro 2
51 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBFDMQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lifeline on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-43 and snare through bars 44-60, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 18 and 26, and 5 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Lifeline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- B, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-26 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 5 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lifeline?

106 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 Lifeline hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Lifeline?

14 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 36, 44, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED