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Live and Learn · Crush 40

EXERCISE 3 OF 66
Groove B
74 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesCLKHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Live and Learn on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-27, ride through bars 28-44, hi-hat through bars 45-64, toms through bars 65-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    47               48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |----------------|------------x---|
HH |o---o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|x-x---x---x---x-|
Live and Learn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- C, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-89 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-53 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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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