Live and Learn · Crush 40

191 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 4:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 3-4, 7-8 and 46-48, and 20 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 172 BPM
LIVE AND LEARN · BARS 47-48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 11, 31, 43, 44, 53 and 24 more.

LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 172 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 172 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 16 sections: 135 keep time, 30 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-26.

PART H
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART L
OUTRO
6 groovesCLKHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Live and Learn?

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

Is Live and Learn hard to play on drums?

61 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 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 Live and Learn?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 1, 11, 31, 43, 44, 53 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED
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