Lifer · Down

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 14-15, and 4 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 97 BPM
LIFER · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 21 and 30 more.

LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 97 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

112 bars across 12 sections: 61 keep time, 36 are fills and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-60.

PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
PART X
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIEXQAC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lifer?

97 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 Lifer hard to play on drums?

63 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Lifer?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 19, 21 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED
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