Lifestyles Of The Rich And The Famous · Good Charlotte

165 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkPop150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 49% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 9 more places -- 49.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 209 BPM
LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND THE FAMOUS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 76, 95, 96, 127, 128 and 3 more.

LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77
LOOP · 209 BPM
BARS 95-96 · LANDS ON BAR 97 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 209 BPM
BARS 127-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 8 sections: 111 keep time, 10 are fills, 35 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAEKS6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lifestyles Of The Rich And The Famous?

209 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Lifestyles Of The Rich And The Famous hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Lifestyles Of The Rich And The Famous?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 76, 95, 96, 127, 128 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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