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Lifer · Down

EXERCISE 12 OF 65
Fill at bar 12, 28, 36 and 104 (a small one)
52 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lifer on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42, ride through bars 43-46 and silence through bars 47-49, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- E, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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